On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 00:06:49 +0100
Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 02:02:12 +0300, Viktar Patotski wrote:
> 
> > It seems to me that there is a problem with:
> > virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext-Simple-0.210.0-r3:0/0::gentoo which
> > tries to emerge dev-lang/perl-5.16.3, while dev-lang/perl-5.18.2:0
> > is used in the system.
> 
> That virtual depends on one of =dev-lang/perl-5.18*
> =dev-lang/perl-5.16* =dev-lang/perl-5.14* ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.4...
> but it was probably installed with 5.16.
> 
> As it is a virtual, you can safely unmerge it, portage should pull it
> back in with the correct deps.

He just needs to do a world upgrade to fix this up; and in doing so,
backtrack as much as necessary (eg. --backtrack=9001 will do) as well
as exclude packages that bail out in the progress (eg. --exclude ATOM).

Unmerging might not necessarily fix up blockers by lack of backtracking.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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