When I try to emerge app-office/lyx-1.5.4 with USE="latex", app-text/tetex and app-text/texlive-core are dependencies - and they block each other. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Add "latex" to the USE flags for app-office/lyx - I used package.use. 2. Make sure that app-text/noweb, app-text/texlive-core and app-text/tetex aren't installed. 3. Run `emerge -pv lyx` Actual Results: At the end of the emerge -pv output, I get this line: [blocks B ] app-text/tetex (is blocking app-text/texlive-core-2007-r12) Expected Results: I would expect that the emerge would proceed smoothly. SOME NOTES: I've noticed that it "works" if you install app-text/texlive-core *first*, and then install lyx. However, the blocking packages show up on subsequent `emerge -upvDN world` runs. $ emerge -pv lyx These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-text/texlive-core-2007-r12 USE="X -doc" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r6 USE="X -Xaw3d -doc -motif -neXt -tk" 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-texlive/texlive-documentation-base-2007 USE="-doc" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-text/noweb-2.9-r5 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2007 USE="-doc" 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2007 USE="-doc" 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2007 USE="-doc" 0 kB [ebuild N ] app-office/lyx-1.5.4 USE="X cups latex nls -debug" LINGUAS="-he" 0 kB [blocks B ] app-text/tetex (is blocking app-text/texlive-core-2007-r12) $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz Timestamp of tree: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:33:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r6, 2.5.1-r5 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 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: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://parthenon http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://parthenon/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt css cups dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif fam ffmpeg flac foomatic fortran ftp gdbm gif gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg libnotify mad matroska midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl php png postgres ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection sdl session smp spell spl sqlite ssl svg tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vim-syntax vorbis win32codecs x264 x86 xine xml xorg xosd xscreensaver xv xvid zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
whats pulling in tetex ? doing 'emerge texlive' before should fix this, but nothing should force tetex to be used. Or perhaps its portage using tetex as virtual/tetex; can you try 'emerge -pvt lyx' to know what wants tetex ?
turned out it was noweb depending on virtual/tetex, I switched it to tex-base and now it should be fine
