On 04/25/2015 09:07 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > A novice asks the master Emerge: > "Is there Zen also in every upgrade, which will serve to Gentoo?" > > Master Emerge moved a little bit and spoke: > > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency > conflict:
Hah! > > x11-libs/libXfont:0 > > (x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts > with > <x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.0 required by > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r4:0/1.12.4::gentoo, installed) > ^ ^^^^^ Emerge is trying to install libXfont 1.5.1 but the xorg-server version installed requires 1.5.0. > > x11-proto/fontsproto:0 > > (x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with > <x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3 required by > (x11-libs/libXfont-1.4.9:0/0::gentoo, installed) > ^ ^^^^^ > <x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3 required by > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r4:0/1.12.4::gentoo, installed) > ^ ^^^^^ > It can't upgrade fontsproto because the current installed version of libXfont requires 2.1.3. Looks like all these messages are thrown because of libXfont. > The novice was buffled and did not understand a single word. > He tries hard to circumvent any conflict with the master but > finally he struggled and failed. Looks like Master Emerge was confused by a circular dependency it could not resolve. Dan
