Re: [gentoo-user] Help installing skype

[Alan McKinnon]

On 25/02/2016 03:05, allan gottlieb wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> A finite subset of this package.use file will let skype install,
>> followed of course by
>> emerge skype.
>>
>> I arrived at this list the long hard way, repeatedly running emerge and
>> adding stuffs still portage stopped it's whinging. The worst part is Qt
>> and X11 as skype is a Qt app and no longer bundles a local copy of Qt.
>
> I tried your list.  It needed a few more.  When I added them, a slot
> conflict again.  If this is easy to explain and fix, please let me know;
> but this is not a do or die effort.


I'm not at that machine right now so I can't check what I have in 
package.use for "icu". You seem to have inconsistencies with USE="icu", 
perhaps gst-plugins-base wants it off and chromium wants it on.

You might need icu in USE globally.

>
> thanks for everyone's help.
> allan
>
> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>
> dev-libs/libxml2:2
>
>    (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
>      dev-libs/libxml2:2[!icu?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] required by (dev-qt/qtwebkit-4.8.6-r1:4/4::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>                         ^^^^^
>      >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.1-r4:2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] required by (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.36-r2:0.10/0.10::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>
>      >=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.1-r4[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] required by (media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.36-r2:0.10/0.10::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>
>
>    (dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2-r4:2/2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>      dev-libs/libxml2:=[icu] required by (www-client/chromium-48.0.2564.109:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>                         ^^^
>      dev-libs/libxml2:2/2=[icu] required by (www-client/chromium-48.0.2564.109:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>                            ^^^
>