Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Circular blockage
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 22:18:13
Message-Id: 201103282316.48169.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org
1 How do I get out of this?
2
3 $ emerge -uptDN world
4
5 These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
6
7 Calculating dependencies ... done!
8 [nomerge ] app-admin/sudo-1.7.4_p5
9 [nomerge ] virtual/mta-0
10 [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-r8 USE="ipv6 ssl -maxsysuid (-md5sum)"
11 [ebuild N ] virtual/mta-0
12 [nomerge ] kde-base/kde-meta-4.4.5
13 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta-4.4.5
14 [nomerge ] kde-base/dragonplayer-4.4.5
15 [nomerge ] media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.19
16 [nomerge ] media-libs/libmng-1.0.10
17 [ebuild R ] virtual/jpeg-0 USE="-static-libs%"
18 [blocks B ] mail-mta/ssmtp ("virtual/mta" is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.62-
19 r8)
20
21 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
22 * installed at the same time on the same system.
23
24 (virtual/mta-0, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
25 =virtual/mta-0 required by (dev-lang/php-5.3.5, installed)
26 virtual/mta required by (app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.17, installed)
27 virtual/mta required by (dev-lang/php-5.3.5, installed)
28 (and 7 more)
29
30 How do I even interpret it? Why is virtual/mta required suddenly? And why does
31 ssmtp conflict with it?
32
33 --
34 Rgds
35 Peter

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blockage Xi Shen <davidshen84@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blockage Eray Aslan <eray.aslan@×××××××.tr>