Hello, I would appreciate help with this multiple-packages-in-a-single slot problem. In the past I have unistalled packages and reinstalled on a case-by-case basis and dealt with the fall out manually. I wonder whether there is a more efficient way of doing it.
Thanks, -- Valmor -> USE="libkms cups apng minizip hwdb" emerge -vp --newuse --tree --update --deep system [snip] [blocks B ] <sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4 ("<sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4" is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.22.2) [blocks B ] <sys-fs/udev-186 ("<sys-fs/udev-186" is blocking sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-23) [blocks B ] <sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.97-r1 ("<sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.97-r1" is blocking sys-fs/udev-197-r8) !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0 (x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4::gentoo, installed) pulled in by <x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.99[-minimal] required by (x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-4.1.22::gentoo, installed) (and 1 more with the same problem) (x11-base/xorg-server-1.13.1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) virtual/udev:0 (virtual/udev-171::gentoo, installed) pulled in by <virtual/udev-196 required by (sys-fs/lvm2-2.02.88::gentoo, installed) (virtual/udev-197-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=virtual/udev-197-r1 required by (sys-fs/udev-197-r8::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) =virtual/udev-197-r1 required by (sys-apps/util-linux-2.22.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (and 11 more with the same problems) sys-fs/udev:0 (sys-fs/udev-171-r9::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~sys-fs/udev-171[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,keymap?,selinux?] required by (virtual/udev-171::gentoo, installed) (sys-fs/udev-197-r8::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=sys-fs/udev-197-r8[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,keymap?,kmod?,selinux?,static-libs?] required by (virtual/udev-197-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox:0 (x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-4.1.24::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) (x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-4.1.22::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-4.1.22 required by (app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-4.1.22::gentoo, installed)