On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote:
In my latest update I have received the following message:
!!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
media-libs/win32codecs:0
('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
pulled in by
('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
@world
('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
pulled in by
('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
@world
...
Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what? HOw can I fix
this?
I believe so:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html
I'm guessing that it's this that's causing the problems you describe
above. You mentioned package unmasking, and this is recommended in the
referenced forums post for those that require Real, but you might just
try unmerging win32codecs & realcodecs & trying your update again.
I discovered this reorganisation because updating my system showed
mplayer updating with the real USE flag being forcibly disabled, i.e.:
[ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 [1.0_rc2_p26753-
r1] USE="... -radio (-real*) -rtc ... " 0 kB
Someone on #gentoo was able to help because they'd experienced the
issue this morning.
It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these codecs
are actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram playlists &
audio files. One would assume so, except for beandog's statement
"Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are hardly used
anymore, and most people will be fine without them."
I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other Friday /
Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can burn their
shows to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the week. As a
consequence later tonight I will be testing mplayer's ability to
handle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram without
these packages installed.
Stroller.
