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Hi, Gentoo. |
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I'm getting back to trying to update my system again, after having lost |
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the thread back in February. I've lost hour after hour after hour with |
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portage's failure to maintain consistency in its internal structures on |
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my system. Sometimes I think it would have been better for me to have |
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just given up, bought a new PC and installed some other distribution on |
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it. |
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Anyhow, after a recommendation from Sebastian Luther at Gentoo, I ran |
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emerge with debugging enabled, thusly: |
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emerge -p --backtrack=100 --debug icu &> emerge-debug.log |
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. It failed, of course, as usual. But in the middle of the debugging |
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output (which is 147k lines long), appeared this: |
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[ebuild U ] app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.10-r2 [9.05-r1] LINGUAS="-de%" |
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[ebuild r U ] net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53 [1.0.36-r1] USE="dbus%* foomatic%*" |
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[blocks b ] <net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r2 ("<net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r2" is blocking app-text/ghostscript-gpl-9.10-r2) |
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[ebuild r U ] app-text/evince-3.10.3 [3.8.3] USE="-libsecret%" |
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[blocks B ] net-print/foomatic-filters ("net-print/foomatic-filters" is blocking net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53) |
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[blocks B ] >=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.43-r1[foomatic] (">=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.43-r1[foomatic]" is blocking net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17-r1) |
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* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be |
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* installed at the same time on the same system. |
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(net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by |
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net-print/cups-filters:0 required by @__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__ |
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>=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.43-r1[foomatic] required by (net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20070501::gentoo, installed) |
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>=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.30 required by (net-print/cups-1.6.4::gentoo, installed) |
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net-print/cups-filters required by (net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17-r1::gentoo, installed) |
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(net-print/foomatic-filters-4.0.17-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by |
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net-print/foomatic-filters required by @selected |
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net-print/foomatic-filters required by (net-print/cups-1.6.4::gentoo, installed) |
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. What is all this trying to tell me? I've tried for over an hour to |
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make sense of it, but my eyes just glaze over. My best guess is that |
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cups-filters and foomatic-filters are packages which can't be installed |
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together. But I _need_ foomatic-filters - otherwise my printer doesn't |
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print. Or do I? cups-filters seems to be needed by cups. |
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What _are_ cups-filters and foomatic-filters? emerge -s is little help |
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here. Why do I need both of them? |
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How do I disentangle my system? |
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Help, please! |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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