On 17:27 Wed 30 May 2012, P Purkayastha wrote:
> On 05/30/2012 05:07 PM, Thomas Kahle wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to build sage on gentoo but I get a conflict:
> >
> > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
> > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> >
> > dev-python/numpy:0
> >
> >    (dev-python/numpy-1.5.1::sage-on-gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
> >      ~dev-python/numpy-1.5.1 required by (sci-mathematics/sage-5.0-r1::sage-on-gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> >
> >    (dev-python/numpy-1.6.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
> >      >=dev-python/numpy-1.5[lapack] required by (sci-libs/scipy-0.9.0-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Thomas
> >
> 
> The latter package scipy depends on >=numpy-1.5 whereas sage depends on 
> =numpy-1.5.1. So, simply mask the higher versions of numpy:
> 
> If you have /etc/portage/package.mask directory then,
> 
> echo ">dev-python/numpy-1.5.1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask/mask_numpy
> 
> otherwise
> 
> echo ">dev-python/numpy-1.5.1" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

Really??? I thought I had seen portage resolving this situation in
earlier occurrences... 

Thanks.

-- 
Thomas Kahle
http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/