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From: n952162 <n952162@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for the same package: how to add a USE flag?
Date: Wed, 20 May 2020 19:50:13
Message-Id: b23bee80-3fc1-7aca-fad5-8f787d092b20@web.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for the same package: how to add a USE flag? by Daniel Frey
1 On 05/20/20 21:24, Daniel Frey wrote:
2 > On 5/20/20 12:06 PM, n952162 wrote:
3 >> The command was:
4 >>
5 >> emerge -vu dev-qt/qtgui dev-qt/qtx11extras dev-qt/qtopengl
6 >> dev-qt/qtprintsupport dev-qt/qtwidgets dev-qt/qtxml
7 >> dev-qt/linguist-tools dev-qt/qtnetwork dev-qt/qtsvg dev-qt/qtcore
8 >>
9 >> The output to that is attached.
10 >>
11 >> I tried just emerging zlib with the static-libs USE flag ... that log is
12 >> also attached.
13 >>
14 >> On 05/20/20 18:59, Ashley Dixon wrote:
15 >>> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:35:52PM +0200, n952162 wrote:
16 >>>> I have a slot conflict for sys-libs/zlib, whereby both users want
17 >>>> the same package.  Studying the USE variables shows that the new
18 >>>> package wants, additionally, the "static-libs" USE flag.
19 >>>>
20 >>>> I thought, the way to handle this is to add the static-libs USE
21 >>>> variable in /etc/portage/package.use and re-emerge with
22 >>>> --changed-use.  Unfortunately, that gives me the same conflict.
23 >>> Can you attach the full output of emerge ?
24 >>>
25 >>
26 >
27 > This is most likely due to so many packages that need to be upgraded
28 > at the same time. You're only asking to update a few select packages
29 > and it's borking because it's finding packages outside your request
30 > that also need to be updated at the same time.
31 >
32
33 Because of a static-libs USE flag?
34 Is it the case that - if a package is installed with a USE flag, every
35 user of that package that doesn't specify that USE flag gets kicked out?

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