On 26/04/2015 04:06, [email protected] wrote: > Daniel Frey <[email protected]> [15-04-26 03:12]: >> 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 >> > > > Hi Dan, > > Thanks for your Koan! :) > > ...and the novice is confused still... > > I tried (after shuttong down X) to remove libXfont and fontsproto (to > install it later again) but this does not help... > > How can I get out of this?
There is nothing to get out of, and there is no circular dep. You have a few X related packages where the latest in the tree cannot be installed just yet, so portage is going with earlier versions. It's trying to tell you why, but doing a really piss-poor fucked up idiotic job of it :-) -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
