On Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:04:50 BST allan gottlieb wrote: > (I have been offline for a few months and apologize if this has been > covered.) > > I had not synced for about 3 months (fear of new, incompatible gnucash) > but have now done so. Unsurprisingly my normal update world shows many > entries and also unsurprising is a blocker (slot conflict). However, I > am confused by the message which reads > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > media-libs/x264:0 > > (media-libs/x264-0.0.20170701:0/152::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this > slot) > > (media-libs/x264-0.0.20160712:0/148::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > > >=media-libs/x264-0.0.20130506:0/148=[abi_x86_64(-)] > > required by (media-video/ffmpeg-3.3.6:0/55.57.57::gentoo, installed) > > Why is this a conflict since the first one 0/152 seems to permit other > solutions. Is the (unstated) point that the second one 0/148 is not one > of the acceptable "other packages in this slot". > > Also I seem some advice. Should I be first working on this blockage. > Or should I instead try to deal with some of the easy updates. > > thanks in advance, > allan
Since you have the latest ffmpeg installed, this is how I would go about this: emerge --depclean -a -v media-libs/x264 emerge -1aDv '=media-libs/x264-0.0.20170701' emerge -1aDv media-video/ffmpeg -- Regards, Mick
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