Situation: I have ffmpeg on my netbook, emerged without the "sdl" USE
flag. I've run into a scenario where I want it emerged with sdl. The
usual response is to to add the "sdl" USE flag (either in make.conf or
in package.use) and simply "emerge ffmpeg" again. But...
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[aa1][root][~] emerge ffmpeg
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.3 USE="sdl*"
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
media-video/ffmpeg:0
(media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
(no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
(media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.3::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>=media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2[X=,encode=,jpeg2k=,mp3=,sdl=,theora=,threads=,truetype=,vaapi=,vdpau=,x264=]
required by (virtual/ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1::gentoo, installed)
!!! Enabling --newuse and --update might solve this conflict.
!!! If not, it might help emerge to give a more specific suggestion.
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What is it whining about?!?! I want to overwrite it, not pull in a
second version side-by-side. I tried the suggestion, but no luck...
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[aa1][root][~] emerge --newuse ffmpeg
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
[aa1][root][~] emerge --newuse --update ffmpeg
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
[aa1][root][~] emerge --update ffmpeg
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...
>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.
[aa1][root][~]
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I said "screw it" (or words to that effect<G>), unmerged ffmpeg, and
re-emerged it. The emerge is running as I type.
--
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
