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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 09:50:56
Message-Id: 20160918105039.6a46966e@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict by Philip Webb
1 On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:40 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
2
3 > root:522 ~> emerge -pv perl
4 >
5 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
6 >
7 > Calculating dependencies... done!
8 > [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo USE="-berkdb
9 > -debug -doc gdbm -ithreads" 0 KiB
10 >
11 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
12 >
13 > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
14 > dependency conflict:
15 >
16 > dev-lang/perl:0
17
18 Is this because you are trying to emerge perl in isolation? This result
19 is not unexpected as you have other packages built against the older
20 version and you have not told portage to deal with that.
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22 What happens if you do emerge -uaD @world?
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26 Neil Bothwick
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28 I am McCoy of Bo...Damnit! I'm a doctor, not a collective!