Hi there!
Some may remember me from posting here often. But since a year, I have a
new life, and much less time for sitting at my computer. Sigh. And my
beloved Gentoo got a little outdated.
So, a @world update does not work. I thought I give emerge -e @world a
try, this should sort out the problems, but this also does not go well.
I don't want to bother you with the whole lot of output emerge gives me,
and just ask a specific question at the moment. I get the 'Multiple
package instances within a single package slot have been pulled into the
dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict' message, and several
affected packages. One example is claws:
mail-client/claws-mail:0
(mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
pulled in by ~mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.0 required by
(mail-client/claws-mail-address_keeper-1.0.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled
for merge)
(mail-client/claws-mail-3.9.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in
this slot)
Looking at the ebuild, I see that claws-mail-address_keeper rdepends on
claws-mail-3.9.0. But being on ~amd86, 3.9.2 would be current.
I can solve this by masking versions greater than 3.9.0. Two questions:
Why can't portage deal with this itself, and simply install the highest
version that fulfills all requirements?
And how do I notice an update to claws-mail-address_keeper that would
allow a newer version of claws-mail? Other than remembering those masks
and go through them once in a while?
Similar problems happen with sys-boot/syslinux, pulled in by
sys-boot/unetbootin, media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit, pulled in by
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs, and all dev-qt packages, where I
did not yet figure out what to do.
I am running portage 2.2.7.
Alex
