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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] trouble understanding a slot conflict
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 01:23:25
Message-Id: yu9398leets.fsf@nyu.edu
1 A normal update world turned up the error below
2 (~amd64, gnome profile)
3
4 !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
5 !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
6
7 sys-apps/pciutils:0
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9 (sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
10 >=sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r1[-compress-db] required by (sys-fs/udev-171-r5::gentoo, installed)
11
12 (sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
13 (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
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15
16 I certainly see where -r1 and -r2 would be a slot conflict but
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18 1. The comment with -r1 says it needs >= -r1, so why would -r2 work?
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20 2. The comment with -r2 seems to say -r2 is not really needed and -r1
21 would work.
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23 The first one seems to say -r2 would be fine for everything; the second
24 that -r1 would be fine for everything. But clearly neither is fine for
25 everything since I have a slot conflict with both versions needed.
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27 Could someone please explain this?
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29 thanks,
30 allan

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