I would expect its autounmask feature to want me to simply enable "static-libs", but it fails instead: # emerge -1 =dev-libs/elfutils-0.158 -av These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] dev-libs/elfutils-0.158 [0.149] USE="bzip2 nls {test%*} utils%* zlib -lzma -static-libs% (-threads)" ABI_X86="(64%*) -32% (-x32)" 4,938 kB Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 4,938 kB !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: dev-libs/elfutils:0 (dev-libs/elfutils-0.149::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=dev-libs/elfutils-0.100[static-libs(+)] required by (sys-devel/prelink-20110511::gentoo, installed) (dev-libs/elfutils-0.158::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by =dev-libs/elfutils-0.158 It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in the dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can not be installed simultaneously. You may want to try a larger value of the --backtrack option, such as --backtrack=30, in order to see if that will solve this conflict automatically. For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. Is this expected? Portage 2.2.8-r1 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome/systemd, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.12.6-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.12.6-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3537U_CPU_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 8052808 total, 1412892 free KiB Swap: 4607996 total, 4097460 free Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2 ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r3, 3.3.3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.12.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.2 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo 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sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON
emerge has this issue in several places. The problem is that without -uDN world, it doesn't have all the freedom that's necessary to do what you want. It would probably do what you want during a world update.
Will try, thanks!
