when I do ` emerge --update --deep --newuse world', emerge tries to install sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a, which is blocked by already installed man-pages-3.20. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --update --newuse --deep world 2. 3. Actual Results: the result is that it doesn't solve the blocking, and doesn't emerge ... [ebuild N ] sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a 949 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-3.20 [2.76] USE="nls" LINGUAS="fr%* -cs% -da% -de% -es% -it% -ja% -nl% -pl% -ro% -ru% -zh_CN%" 1,067 kB [blocks B ] <sys-apps/man-pages-3 ("<sys-apps/man-pages-3" is blocking sys-a pps/man-pages-posix-2003a) Total: 89 packages (72 upgrades, 6 new, 2 in new slots, 9 reinstalls, 2 uninstal ls), Size of downloads: 241,237 kB Conflict: 4 blocks (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a', 'merge') pulled in by sys-apps/man-pages-posix required by ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/man-pages-3.2 0', 'merge') a question: since it's an update, why is sys-apps/man-pages-posix-2003a required for new install? is it because it's needed by a to be updated package? if so, can I safely unmerge sys-apps/man-pages-3.20? does it all happen because I changed my localisation since install? Portage 2.1.6.11 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.27-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r10-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1.70GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 06 May 2009 05:15:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13 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: 1.7.9-r1, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium-m -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo " LANG="fr_FR.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="fr en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kpathsea latex ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mp3 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vorbis win32codecs x86 xml xorg xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 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 mmap_emul 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 synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="fr en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fglrx radeon radeonhd" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
NotABug emerge -C sys-apps/man-pages to fix it.
(In reply to comment #1) > NotABug > emerge -C sys-apps/man-pages to fix it. > thanks a lot!
