"Andreas K. Huettel" <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 15. Januar 2017, 20:28:22 CET schrieb wabe: > > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I > > update my system: > > > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > > > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a > > dependency conflict: > > > > app-text/xmlto:0 > > > > (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > > conflicts with > > >=app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1[text(+)] required by > > >(x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > Nothing to merge; quitting. > > > > > > I don't understand this because these versions are already > > installed on my system: > > > > [I] app-text/xmlto > > Available versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2} ~0.0.28-r1 {latex text} > > Installed versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2}(19:30:25 12/02/15)(text > > -latex) > > > > [I] x11-misc/xdg-utils > > Available versions: 1.1.1^t{tbz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc +perl} > > Installed versions: 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc > > perl) > > > > > > > > How can a package conflict with itself (same version)? > > > > The default setting of the text useflag in xmlto was changed from on > to off. Now portage wants to reinstall xmlto without USE=text > (because of the changed useflag, I assume you used "emerge -uDNav" or > similar), but can't do that (because xdg-utils needs the useflag on).
Thanks for this info. After enabling the text useflag for xmlto, I was able to downgrade it to the stable version. > I admit the output is not really optimal. :) It helped to look at the > git history of xmlto. Many thanks for your effort. -- Regards wabe
