Here is the error message: bash-2.05b# emerge --update system Calculating system dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together. bash-2.05b# What do I have to do??? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --update system 2. 3. Actual Results: bash-2.05b# emerge --update system Calculating system dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together. bash-2.05b# Expected Results: a system update
This isn't a bug. Portage is saying that the package dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 can't be installed because it conflicts with an already installed package. If you had done an emerge --update --pretend system before hand you would have noticed this. You may need to unmerge the offending package or try adjust your USE flags so that dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 isn't needed.
read comment #1, he hit it on the head *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24876 ***
