Re: [gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict

[wabe]

"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o> wrote:

> Am Sonntag, 15. Januar 2017, 20:28:22 CET schrieb wabe:
> > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I
> > update my system:
> >
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
> >
> > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
> > dependency conflict:
> >
> > app-text/xmlto:0
> >
> >   (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > conflicts with
> >     >=app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1[text(+)] required by
> >     >(x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> > Nothing to merge; quitting.
> >
> >
> > I don't understand this because these versions are already
> > installed on my system:
> >
> > [I] app-text/xmlto
> >      Available versions:  0.0.26-r1{tbz2} ~0.0.28-r1 {latex text}
> >      Installed versions:  0.0.26-r1{tbz2}(19:30:25 12/02/15)(text
> > -latex)
> >
> > [I] x11-misc/xdg-utils
> >      Available versions:  1.1.1^t{tbz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc +perl}
> >      Installed versions:  1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc
> > perl)
> >
> >
> >
> > How can a package conflict with itself (same version)?
> >
>
> The default setting of the text useflag in xmlto was changed from on
> to off. Now portage wants to reinstall xmlto without USE=text
> (because of the changed useflag, I assume you used "emerge -uDNav" or
> similar), but can't do that (because xdg-utils needs the useflag on).

Thanks for this info. After enabling the text useflag for xmlto, I was 
able to downgrade it to the stable version.
 
> I admit the output is not really optimal. :) It helped to look at the
> git history of xmlto.
 
Many thanks for your effort.

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Regards
wabe