Re: [gentoo-user] Pseudo first impressions

[Mick]

On Saturday 29 Apr 2017 14:39:13 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> Now able to boot into my new hardware, one of the first things I did was
>
>     # emerge --sync
>
> .  Fine.  The next thing I tried was
>
>     # emerge -auND @world
>
> , which is probably recommended in the handbook.  This was anything but
> fine.
>
> I'm glad I'm not a real Gentoo newby, because I would have been
> completely flumoxed by what came up on my screen.
>
> For a start, I could barely read parts of it, which were displayed in
> dark blue text on a black background.  Setting up /etc/portage/color.map
> is not the first thing a new user should have to do to be able to read
> messages from emerge.  This is, however, something I knew had to be
> done, and I did it.
>
> The error message was "Multiple package instances within a single
> package slot have been pulled into the dependency graph, resulting in a
> slot conflict:".  Uhh???
>
> Is this gobbledegook really what a new user should be seeing, having not
> yet installed any packages, bar a very few, beyond what is requisite to
> bringing a new machine up?
>
> The actual conflict packages are:
>     dev-lang/perl-5.24.1-r1:0/5.24::gentoo
>   and
>     dev-lang/perl-5.22.3-rc4:0/5.22::gentoo
> , "pulled in" by internal system packages I've got no direct interest
> in, plus, shockingly, "and 2 more with the same problem" and "and 5 more
> with the same problem".
>
> I'm glad I've got the experience with Gentoo to know it's worth
> ploughing on through these messes.
>
> Other than that, it seems like a pretty ghastly mistake by Gentoo's
> quality control.  I know none of you get paid for it, and you all do it
> for love.  I admit I probably wouldn't have done the job much better
> myself.  But for Gentoo's sake, something needs to get better.

Try running:

perl-cleaner --reallyall

Then try 'emerge -uaNDv world' again.
-- 
Regards,
Mick