[gentoo-user] Re: world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 22/09/14 14:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> When I run:
>
>    emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world
>
> I get this:
>
>    WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
>    dependency conflict:
>
>    x11-base/xorg-server:0
>
>      (x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.0.901:0/1.16.0.901::gentoo, ebuild
>      scheduled for merge) conflicts with
>        x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.15.1= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-
>        input-evdev-2.8.4:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>
> and xorg-server is not updated at all. I didn't even know that there's
> newer versions in portage. I'm on 1.15.1 and been running that for a
> long time now, but there's 1.15.2, 1.16.0 and 1.16.1 available. If I do:
>
>    emerge -1 =xorg-server-1.16.1
>
> then it works just fine and it gets updated. But with a @world update,
> nope.

Since is seems like others also have this problem, I've opened a bug for 
this:

   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523486