Although the gnome-settings-daemon ebuild has supposedly been branched out from control-center, control-center-2.22 blocks gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.0, despite the fact that attempting to emerge either one of them brings the other into the dependency graph. Either the packages are truly incompatible (in which case, why does gnome-settings-daemon exist?), and gnome-settings-daemon shouldn't be brought into the dependency path, or they shouldn't be blocking one another. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge '=gnome-base/control-center-2.22' OR 1. emerge '=gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.0' emerge --info follows: Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.2.3, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.21-suspend2-r7 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-suspend2-r7 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.5 dev-lang/python: 2.5.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.12 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.24 ABI="amd64" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="amd64" ASFLAGS_x86="--32" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CACA_FONT="5x7" CACA_GEOMETRY="256x114" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CCACHE_DIR="/var/tmp/ccache/" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" CDEFINE_amd64="__x86_64__" CDEFINE_x86="__i386__" CFLAGS="-O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=nocona -pipe" CFLAGS_x86="-m32 -L/emul/linux/x86/lib -L/emul/linux/x86/usr/lib" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_amd64="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CHOST_x86="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLASSPATH="." 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No, you are mistaken. control-settings-2.22.0 RDEPENDs on gnome-settings-daemon and in no way blocks it. gnome-settings-daemon in turn blocks control-center versions that are LOWER than 2.22.0 as it provides the same library as lower versions of control-center. This is by design and is covered in the upgrade guide.
My apologies. I was confused by the fact that portage indicated specifically that control-center-2.22 was blocking settings-daemon-2.22.0, when in fact it was settings-daemon-2.22 that was blocking control-center-2.20.3 (correctly and by design, as you indicated). As an aside, is there some way this misrepresentation could be fixed?
That's a portage issue, and probably a hard one to resolve gracefully. That's why we have the upgrade guide to help for this sort of problems. Thanks
