On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:05:27 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote: > > emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y > > @world > > > > * IMPORTANT: 4 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. > > * Use eselect news read to view new items. > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > > pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > > > dev-libs/boost:0 > > > > (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > > > > merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages > > in this slot) > > > > (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > > > > merge) pulled in by dev-libs/boost:0/1.55.0= required by > > (dev-libs/librevenge-0.0.2:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > ^^^^^^^^^^ (and 2 more with the same problem) > > > > dev-util/boost-build:0 > > > > (dev-util/boost-build-1.55.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > > > > =dev-util/boost-build-1.55* required by > > > > (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > > ^ > > ^^^^^ > > > > (dev-util/boost-build-1.56.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > > > > pulled in by =dev-util/boost-build-1.56* required by > > (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > > ^ > > ^^^^^ > > > > media-video/ffmpeg:0 > > > > (media-video/ffmpeg-2.6.3:0/54.56.56::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > > > > merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages > > in this slot) > > > > (media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14:0/52.55.55::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > > > > media-video/ffmpeg:0/52.55.55=[vdpau] required by > > > > (media-libs/mlt-0.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > These are unimportant, it is simply portage telling you it is not > updating some packages to the latest available and why. Personally, I > believe this sort of output should only be shown when using --verbose.
There is an open bug/feature request for portage to be able to drop all these blocked/blocking packages (and their dependencies) and continue installing all the unaffected packages. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476350 -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
