How do I get out of this? $ emerge -uptDN world
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [nomerge ] app-admin/sudo-1.7.4_p5 [nomerge ] virtual/mta-0 [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8 USE="ipv6 ssl -maxsysuid (-md5sum)" [ebuild N ] virtual/mta-0 [nomerge ] kde-base/kde-meta-4.4.5 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta-4.4.5 [nomerge ] kde-base/dragonplayer-4.4.5 [nomerge ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.19 [nomerge ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.10 [ebuild R ] virtual/jpeg-0 USE="-static-libs%" [blocks B ] mail-mta/ssmtp ("virtual/mta" is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62- r8) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (virtual/mta-0, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by =virtual/mta-0 required by (dev-lang/php-5.3.5, installed) virtual/mta required by (app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.17, installed) virtual/mta required by (dev-lang/php-5.3.5, installed) (and 7 more) How do I even interpret it? Why is virtual/mta required suddenly? And why does ssmtp conflict with it? -- Rgds Peter