Hi.
Perl packages family use extremely annoying dependency definition.
See example below.
The question is "what is the correct way to solve this dependency conflict?". I
don't like to add all "conflicts" into install list in cli. Is there a way to
force update of all this "perl sh.t/stuff"? And this is not first time when I
faced this issue. And usually it happen with perl* packages.
# emerge -a1 bash perl
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-4.3_p46-r1 [4.3_p42-r1]
[ebuild R] dev-lang/perl-5.20.2
WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency
conflict:
dev-lang/perl:0
(dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts
with
=dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-IO-1.310.0:0/0::gentoo,
installed)
^ ^
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.30.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Text-Unidecode-0.40.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Date-Manip-6.510.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/IO-Socket-INET6-2.720.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(perl-core/Data-Dumper-2.154.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-2.24.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
=dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
(virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.330.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
^ ^
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Tie-IxHash-1.230.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
=dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
(virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.880.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
^ ^
=dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by
(virtual/perl-Storable-2.490.100-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
^ ^^^
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Carp-Clan-6.40.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Socket6-0.270.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (dev-perl/Net-DNS-1.40.0:0/0::gentoo,
installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Error-0.170.240:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Date-Calc-6.400.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/libintl-perl-1.240.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Sys-CPU-0.610.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Authen-SASL-2.160.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Sys-MemInfo-0.980.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
=dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
(virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.530.0-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
^ ^
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Net-IP-1.260.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-vcs/git-2.7.3-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Unicode-EastAsianWidth-1.330.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(perl-core/File-Temp-0.230.400-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
=dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by
(virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.100-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
^ ^^^
=dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
(virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.140.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
^ ^
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Bit-Vector-7.400.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (sys-apps/texinfo-6.1:0/0::gentoo,
installed)
=dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-Encode-2.600.0:0/0::gentoo,
installed)
^ ^
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(perl-core/libnet-1.270.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
(dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
=dev-lang/perl-5.20*