Even if I don't have either of the involved packages in my world file (and, then, portage should be able to choose the proper one if I don't misremember). I get: [ebuild U ~] mate-base/mate-control-center-1.8.3 [1.8.1] USE="-debug" 1.276 KiB [blocks B ] x11-wm/mate-window-manager ("x11-wm/mate-window-manager" is hard blocking x11-wm/marco-1.8.0) Total: 24 packages (16 upgrades, 8 new), Size of downloads: 84.220 KiB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (x11-wm/mate-window-manager-1.6.2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=x11-wm/mate-window-manager-1.6:0 required by (mate-base/mate-control-center-1.8.3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (x11-wm/marco-1.8.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=x11-wm/marco-1.8:0 required by (mate-base/mate-1.8.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked I am not sure if this is expected :/
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(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #0) > Even if I don't have either of the involved packages in my world file (and, > then, portage should be able to choose the proper one if I don't > misremember). It does not just depend on your world file, but also on the dependencies of the packages pulled in by your world file (and @system too). I suspect that the mate-base/mate-1.8.0 dependencies need to be updated to be compatible with the mate-base/mate-control-center-1.8.3 dependencies. In mate-base/mate-1.8.0 we have RDEPEND=">=x11-wm/marco-1.8:0", and in mate-base/mate-control-center-1.8.3 we have RDEPEND = "|| ( >=x11-wm/marco-1.8.2:0 >=x11-wm/mate-window-manager-1.6:0 )". Reassigning to Matthias since he did the version bump: *mate-control-center-1.8.3 (11 Dec 2014) 11 Dec 2014; Matthias Maier <tamiko@gentoo.org> +mate-control-center-1.8.3.ebuild: version bump
Ah, yes, the problem is that I have added keywords for mate-control-center and nor for marco and, then, portage refuses to update to marco-1.8.2 as it's still in testing. Due to that it tries to pull in the other option (mate-window-manager) that causes the blockers. I guess this is INVALID then :) (sorry for the noise, I didn't notice the higher version requirement in mate-control-center ebuild)
