Re: [gentoo-user] "<media-video/nvidia-settings-256.52" is blocking x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29

[Daniel D Jones]

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 14:49:47 Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Daniel D Jones
>
> <ddjones@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
> > Getting the following error:
> >
> > [blocks B     ] <media-video/nvidia-settings-256.52
> > ("<media-video/nvidia- settings-256.52" is blocking
> > x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29)
> >
> > Total: 150 packages (148 upgrades, 1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of
> > downloads: 87,737 kB
> > Conflict: 2 blocks (1 unsatisfied)
> >
> >  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> >  * installed at the same time on the same system.
> >
> >  (media-video/nvidia-settings-195.36.24, installed) pulled in by
> >    media-video/nvidia-settings required by (x11-drivers/nvidia-
> > drivers-260.19.29, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> >    media-video/nvidia-settings required by @selected
> >
> >  (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-260.19.29, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > pulled in by
> >    x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers required by @selected
> >    x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers required by (media-video/nvidia-
> > settings-195.36.24, installed)
> >
> >
> > Is this just a temporary glitch with the packages that will fix itself
> > when an updated version of nvidia-settings is added to portage or is
> > this something wrong on my system?
>
> I have version 260.19.29 of both in my portage tree, maybe try to
> emerge --sync. I'm using ~amd64 and emerged both of them on 20th of
> December.

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"

eix-sync is run nightly as a cron-job and this issue has existed for a few 
days at least.  Manually running emerge --sync did not change anything.

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