Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:36:45
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kVJw+eWSq40hT_0EK1tiy8_WgaePK9Y=QxaSsuCjSp_w@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict by Philip Webb
1 On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 7:53 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > 160918 Kai Krakow wrote:
3 >> Try ... adding vim and other packages to the list:
4 >> # emerge -1Dpuv perl
5 >> # emerge -1Dpuv perl vim ...
6 >
7 > I got around the problem by using :
8 >
9 > emerge --backtrack=30 -pvtD perl
10
11 I suspect that you could have gotten away with just emerge
12 --backtrack=30 -puDvt @world.
13
14 Or if you want less than that then just grab all the perl stuff out of
15 your world, which it looks like you already did. Without increasing
16 the backtrack setting I suspect it can't get past the blockers.
17
18 --
19 Rich