Re: [gentoo-user] Please help me with an emerge "slot" problem.

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Philip,

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 09:00:34PM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 130713 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > When I try "emerge -puND libgcrypt", I get
> > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
> > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> >   dev-libs/libgcrypt:0
> >     (dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5.2-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
> >       (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot)
> >     (dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.5.0-r2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> >       >=dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.1.90:0/0= required by (net-misc/vino-2.32.2-r1::gentoo, installed)

> It looks like one of those standard conflicts,
> which you resolve by unmerging Libgcrypt before merging the new version ;
> after that, you may also need to remerge Vino .

Thanks!  I unmerged libgcrypt, then remerged it, then had some fun with
pambase and shadow (whatever they are) not liking eachother.  I managed
to get fully updated in the end, including merging the new libreoffice.
It took a while.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).