Am Samstag, 22.02.2014 um 21:15 schrieb Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de>:
> Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long > interval. I got the error message: > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have > been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot > conflict: > > , etc. > > To simplify the problem, I tried to emerge an individual package > identified in that message, and tried emerge -p libpng. I got the > same message, with this: > > ############################################################################### > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > media-libs/libpng:0 > > (media-libs/libpng-1.5.17-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by > (x11-libs/cairo-1.12.14-r4::gentoo, installed) > >=media-libs/libpng-1.4:0/0= required by > >(app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2::gentoo, installed) > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by > (media-libs/libwebp-0.3.1::gentoo, installed) media-libs/libpng:0/0= > required by (net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r1::gentoo, installed) > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by > (kde-base/kdelibs-4.11.2-r1::gentoo, installed) > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5-r1::gentoo, > installed) media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by > (app-text/poppler-0.24.3::gentoo, installed) (and 3 more with the > same problems) > > (media-libs/libpng-1.6.8::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in > this slot) > ############################################################################### > > Clearly, I'm trying to update libpng-1.5.17 to libpng-1.6.8. What > does this portion of the message mean: > > media-libs/libpng:0/0= > ^^^^^ > > ? Is it somehow telling me that cairo and friends require the > currently installed version, whatever that is? Where is this format > documented? I couldn't find anything about it in the Gentoo > handbook, and not in the emerge man page either. > > What do I have to do to get this thing emerged? > > Thanks! > Sometimes it is helpful to increase the backtrack value. Some weeks ago I had a similar problem and could I solve it with emerge --backtrack=100 ...
