(I have been offline for a few months and apologize if this has been covered.)
I had not synced for about 3 months (fear of new, incompatible gnucash) but have now done so. Unsurprisingly my normal update world shows many entries and also unsurprising is a blocker (slot conflict). However, I am confused by the message which reads !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: media-libs/x264:0 (media-libs/x264-0.0.20170701:0/152::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) (media-libs/x264-0.0.20160712:0/148::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=media-libs/x264-0.0.20130506:0/148=[abi_x86_64(-)] required by (media-video/ffmpeg-3.3.6:0/55.57.57::gentoo, installed) Why is this a conflict since the first one 0/152 seems to permit other solutions. Is the (unstated) point that the second one 0/148 is not one of the acceptable "other packages in this slot". Also I seem some advice. Should I be first working on this blockage. Or should I instead try to deal with some of the easy updates. thanks in advance, allan