During today's world update I have noticed that "libdvdnav is blocking libdvdread"
It seems a bit strange for me as both libraries are emerging at the same time. At first, I thought that one of them is a remnant of gnome (now I use xfce4), but "equery d libdvd*" suggests that it is not the case. Below, I paste all the relevant output from the root terminal: # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --ask world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/bin86-0.16.20-r2 [0.16.19] [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libcdio-0.92 [0.90-r1] [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.7.1-r1 [1.7.1] USE="-systemd%" [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xfce4-terminal-0.6.3 [0.6.2-r1] [ebuild U ] xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.10.1-r1 [4.10.1] USE="nls%*" [ebuild U ] media-libs/libdvdread-4.2.1 [4.2.0] ABI_X86="(64%*) (-32) (-x32)" [ebuild U ] media-libs/libdvdnav-4.2.1 [4.2.0] ABI_X86="(64%*) (-32) (-x32)" [blocks b] <media-libs/libdvdnav-4.2.1 ("<media-libs/libdvdnav-4.2.1" is blocking media-libs/libdvdread-4.2.1) [ebuild U ] www-client/opera-12.16_p1860-r1 [12.16_p1860] ... >>> Auto-cleaning packages... >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. * Regenerating GNU info directory index... * Processed 155 info files. !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: dev-libs/libcdio-0.92 * - /usr/lib64/libcdio.so.14 * - /usr/lib64/libcdio.so.14.0.0 * used by /usr/bin/libcdio-paranoia (dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia-0.90_p1-r1) * used by /usr/lib64/libcdio_cdda.so.1.0.0 (dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia-0.90_p1-r1) * used by /usr/lib64/libcdio_paranoia.so.1.0.0 (dev-libs/libcdio-paranoia-0.90_p1-r1) * used by /usr/libexec/gvfsd-cdda (gnome-base/gvfs-1.18.3) Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries * After world updates, it is important to remove obsolete packages with emerge --depclean. # emerge @preserved-rebuild >>> Ok. # emerge --depclean --ask >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean # revdep-rebuild >>> Ok. # equery d libdvdnav * These packages depend on libdvdnav: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20131008-r1 (abi_x86_32 ? >=media-libs/libdvdnav-4.2.0-r1[abi_x86_32(-)]) >media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-0.10.23 >(>=media-libs/libdvdnav-4.1.2) media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-1.2.3 (>=media-libs/libdvdnav-4.1.2) media-video/vlc-2.0.7 (dvd ? >=media-libs/libdvdnav-0.1.9) # equery d libdvdread * These packages depend on libdvdread: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20131008-r1 (abi_x86_32 ? >=media-libs/libdvdread-4.2.0-r1[abi_x86_32(-)]) >media-libs/libdvdnav-4.2.1 >(>=media-libs/libdvdread-4.2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?]) > media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-0.10.19 (media-libs/libdvdread) media-plugins/gst-plugins-dvdread-1.2.3 (media-libs/libdvdread) media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-0.10.23 (>=media-libs/libdvdread-4.1.2) media-plugins/gst-plugins-resindvd-1.2.3 (>=media-libs/libdvdread-4.1.2) media-video/vlc-2.0.7 (dvd ? media-libs/libdvdread) sys-apps/gnome-disk-utility-3.10.0 (>=media-libs/libdvdread-4.2.0) Any comments?