This may be a genuine conflict, but I suspect it's a name conflict of some sort since star is a compression/archive utility and openoffice is a relative of star office, an other animal altogether. Please excuse me if this is truly a conflict but I thought it best to call it to someone's attention in case it needs to be fixed. # emerge -p openoffice These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/star (from pkg app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r1) [ebuild N ] app-office/openoffice-1.1.0-r1
No, the problem is that openoffice does not work with the tar provided in star.
but does star really override the "tar" link, and not install as the binary "star" ?
sys-apps/star is a dependency of amanda, and was emerged as such when I emerged amanda, so installing amanda (which I absolutely need) prevents the installation of openoffice (which I would like to have). This is a bit wonky and needs to be addressed on one end or the other. Maybe this needs to be addressed as a bug in the amanda ebuild.
Standard tar is in /bin/tar and star is in /usr/bin/tar, however openoffice does not make the difference, so compilation fails if star is installed. Note that you can safely (re)install star after openoffice is compiled.
