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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] install a single package into a different tree?
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:15:45
Message-Id: 20130317181527.1accce3d@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] install a single package into a different tree? by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:28:21 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2
3 > [blocks B ] <media-video/avidemux-2.6.2
4 > ("<media-video/avidemux-2.6.2" is blocking
5 > media-libs/avidemux-core-2.6.2)
6 >
7 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
8 > * installed at the same time on the same system.
9 >
10 > (media-video/avidemux-2.5.6-r2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
11 > media-video/avidemux:2 required by @selected
12 >
13 > (media-libs/avidemux-core-2.6.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
14 > merge) pulled in by
15 >
16 > =media-libs/avidemux-core-2.6.2[a52,alsa,dts,lame,mmx,nls,sdl,vorbis,truetype,xvid,x264,xv]
17 > required by (media-video/avidemux-2.6.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
18 > merge)
19 >
20 > So, you must have been very lucky, and that's not portable.
21
22 I don't think it was luck, I had 2.5 installed, and later uninstalled,
23 before the 2.6 package was split into avidemux and -core. Now it appears
24 you can't have both, which rather defeats the point of slotting them. I'd
25 file a bug report, if no one has beaten you to it.
26
27
28 --
29 Neil Bothwick
30
31 "Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like
32 I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go
33 away. I don't know why this works but it does."
34 Scott Adams, Dilbert comic

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