[gentoo-user] Re: strange dependency conflict

[Remy Blank]

wabe wrote on 2017-01-15 20:28:
> 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)?

Enable the "text" USE flag for xmlto. It's required by xdg-utils.

-- Remy