On Tue, Jun 13 2017, Quico Jurado wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> I'm trying to update @world, and I'm getting a problem with blocking
> packages which I'm not sure if I understand. It looks like a circular
> blocking problem, but not sure.
>
> Here's what emerge is telling me:
>
> [ebuild U ] app-text/texlive-2016::gentoo [2015::gentoo] USE="X
> context detex dvi2tty extra graphics humanities jadetex luatex omega png
> pstricks publishers science tex4ht texi2html truetype xetex xindy xml -cjk
> -epspdf -games -metapost -music -pdfannotextractor" L10N="-af -ar -as -bg
> -bn -br -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en-GB -eo -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga
> -gl -gu -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -ia -id -is -it -ja -kn -ko -la -lo -lt
> -lv -ml -mn -mr -nb -nl -nn -no -or -pa -pl -pt -rm -ro -ru -sa -sco -sk
> -sl -sq -sr -sv -ta -te -th -tk -tr -uk -vi -zh" 0 KiB
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016, dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
>
> Total: 40 packages (36 upgrades, 1 new, 1 in new slot, 2 reinstalls, 2
> uninstalls), Size of downloads: 500,112 KiB
> Conflict: 9 blocks (6 unsatisfied)
>
> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
> And this is the update command that I'm running:
>
> emerge -uvaND --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Cheers!
This is bug 606730 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606730
allan
