Although the ebuilds are slotted, they cannot be installed at the same time. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -auvDN xfce4-indicator-plugin Actual Results: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] dev-vcs/git-1.7.8 [1.7.8_rc4] USE="blksha1 curl gtk iconv perl python threads webdav -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs (-ppcsha1) -subversion -tk -xinetd" 3,941 kB [ebuild NS ] dev-libs/libindicator-0.4.1-r300 [0.4.1-r200] 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libindicator-0.4.1-r201 [0.4.1-r200] 0 kB [blocks b ] <dev-libs/libindicator-0.4.1-r201 ("<dev-libs/libindicator-0.4.1-r201" is blocking dev-libs/libindicator-0.4.1-r300) Total: 3 packages (2 upgrades, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 3,941 kB Conflict: 1 block Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
You need to unmerge dev-libs/libindicator-0.4.1-r200 first, it seems.
no idea what Comment #0 means as the output is showing them getting installed in parallel just fine
I uninstalled both libindicator and xfce4-indicator-plugin (the only package depending on it), and reinstalled it without a problem. I don't know what happened either. Sorry for the trouble.