Trying to emerge xmms, i ended up being blocked with aspell. I tried to merge the 2 packages individually, but they block each others... neo ~ # emerge aspell-en Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 [0.51.1] [ebuild U ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 [0.50.5-r4] USE="nls%* -examples%" [blocks B ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.5) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked neo ~ # emerge aspell Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 [0.50.5-r4] USE="nls%* -examples%" [blocks B ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.5) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked Reproducible: Didn't try
try to unmerge aspell first, it should fix the blocker. Portage 2.2 might help here but I suppose you are running stable (please _always_ paste emerge --info) assigning to app-dicts for their final word.
I did the emerge --unmerge aspell then: neo ~ # emerge aspell Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 USE="gpm nls -examples" [blocks B ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.5) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked neo ~ # emerge aspell-en Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 [0.51.1] [ebuild N ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 USE="gpm nls -examples" [blocks B ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/aspell-0.60.5) and why I am here: neo ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1/desktop, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r10 x86_64 AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+ Timestamp of tree: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.11.13-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.11-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 apache2 arts berkdb cairo cdr cgi cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dbus dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam firefox fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde ldap mad maildir midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl swat tcpd truetype unicode vorbis xml xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xv zip zlib" 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i810 mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Ok, did: emerge --unmerge aspell then: emerge --unmerge aspell-en then I am good to go. Thanks (still believe this is a bug, but I guess this is a valid work-around)
Thank you for report. But this is not a bug. In portage <2.1.5 such behaviour is considered normal and how to work with blockers is (well, should be, I'm not 100% sure) documented in handbook. In newer versions (>2.1.5) portage have an ability to resolve such blockers automatically. If interested take a look at: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/zmedico/2008/05/06/blocker_conflict_automatic_uninstall In any case now closing as INVALID.
