root@lynx:/var/lib/layman/lordvan/media-tv/me-tv(35)# emerge -pvuNDt freemat These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies .......... done! [nomerge ] media-gfx/iscan-2.28.1.3::local USE="X doc gimp jpeg png tiff" LINGUAS="de fr -ar -es -it -ja -ko -nl -pt -zh_CN -zh_TW" [nomerge ] media-gfx/gimp-2.8.0-r1 USE="alsa bzip2 curl dbus doc exif gnome jpeg jpeg2k lcms mmx mng pdf png postscript python smp sse svg tiff udev webkit wmf xpm -aalib (-altivec) -debug" LIN ... [nomerge ] sci-mathematics/freemat-4.1 USE="volpack -vtk" [ebuild N ] sci-libs/matio-1.5.0 USE="doc examples hdf5 -sparse -static-libs" 778 kB ... Reproducible: Always
so how is it a bug? you can mask matio-1.5 if you want both scilab and freemat, there is no hard dependency of freemat on matio-1.5. if freemat really does not work with matio-1.3.4, then report again.