Due to a GnuTLS update, I need to remerge vlc. However, I can't: # emerge vlc Calculating dependencies... done! !!! Error: circular dependencies: ebuild / sys-apps/dbus-0.62-r1 merge depends on ebuild / x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r2 merge (hard) ebuild / x11-libs/qt-4.1.4 merge (hard) ebuild / media-video/vlc-0.8.5-r5 merge depends on ebuild / sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r1 merge (hard) ebuild / sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r1 merge depends on ebuild / sys-apps/dbus-0.62-r1 merge (hard) ebuild / net-print/cups-1.2.4 merge depends on ebuild / sys-apps/dbus-0.62-r1 merge (hard) ebuild / net-print/foomatic-filters-ppds-20060720 merge depends on ebuild / net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20060720 merge (medium) ebuild / net-print/cups-1.2.4 merge (soft) ebuild / app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54 merge depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.2.4 merge (hard) ebuild / virtual/ghostscript-0 merge depends on ebuild / app-text/ghostscript-gpl-8.54 merge (medium) ebuild / net-print/cups-1.2.4 merge (soft) ebuild / x11-libs/qt-3.3.6-r2 merge depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.2.4 merge (hard) ebuild / x11-libs/qt-4.1.4 merge depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.2.4 merge (hard) ebuild / net-print/foomatic-filters-3.0.20060720 merge depends on ebuild / net-print/cups-1.2.4 merge (hard) ebuild / virtual/ghostscript-0 merge (hard) emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2_pre2-r7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-rc6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-rc6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:50:01 +0000 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.0-r2, 2.0.28-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/wildfire/resources/security/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync5.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow acl acpi alsa apache2 apm bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cdr claendar clamav cli crypt cscope cups curl dbus dio dlloader dri dvd dvdr elibc_glibc emboss encode ethereal exif fam firefox fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gmp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imagemagick imap imlib input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jabber jpeg kdeenablefinal kernel_linux libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mmap mmx mng mp3 mpeg mpi mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre perl php png posix ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline recide reflection sasl sdl session sockets spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vhosts video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144527 ***
