on Sunday 11/09/2008 Stroller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
>
> 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.
>
Well, the forum post helped, except that package.unmask seems to be in
/etc/portage and I thought he had said it was in /etc/portage/profile
-- I will have to try things after the merge is complete. I think I
fixed things so I am using the codecs from realplayer -- hope they
will work.
Thanks a lot for your help.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
