I've seen a circular dependency over the following packages: - x11-libs/libva-compat - x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver - x11-libs/libva Basically if you try to emerge x11-libs/libva-compat with nvidia, nouveau or vdpau will try to pull x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver, but x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver requires x11-libs/libva, which conflicts with x11-libs/libva-compat and creates a block which I'm not able to find a way to move forward. I found this while updating steam-meta package, which it seems has changed from requiring libva-compat instead of libva and thus creates the block when trying to install/update it. Steps to reproduce: - Have nouveau or nvidia as VIDEO_CARDS variable. - Have vdpau on global use flags (or libva-compat use flag). - Try to emerge x11-libs/libva-compat The following snippet its from emerging steam-meta, but I just left the block part: -> # emerge -av games-util/steam-meta These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [...] [ebuild N ~] x11-libs/libva-compat-1.8.3:1::gentoo USE="X drm opengl -egl -vdpau -wayland" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -i965 -intel -nouveau" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libva-1.7.3::gentoo USE="X drm opengl -egl -vdpau -wayland" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia -dummy -i965 -intel -nouveau" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-r4::gentoo USE="opengl -debug" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB [...] [blocks B ] x11-libs/libva:0/0 ("x11-libs/libva:0/0" is blocking x11-libs/libva-compat-1.8.3) Total: 32 packages (30 new, 2 in new slots), Size of downloads: 247 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-libs/libva-1.7.3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=x11-libs/libva-1.2.1-r1[X,opengl?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_riscv_lp64d(-)?,abi_riscv_lp64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] (>=x11-libs/libva-1.2.1-r1[X,opengl,abi_x86_32(-),abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (x11-libs/libva-vdpau-driver-0.7.4-r4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (x11-libs/libva-compat-1.8.3:1/1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by x11-libs/libva-compat:1[abi_x86_32] required by (games-util/steam-client-meta-0-r20190506:0/0::steam-overlay, ebuild scheduled for merge)
Created attachment 576068 [details] Log of emerge -pv libva-compat
Created attachment 576070 [details] emerge --info output
Good point, didn't think of that as I don't use those packages. I'll see what I can do.
Sorry, I was incorrect. In my case, it's because I'm not a stable user. This would all go away if libva-2 was stable but I'm not sure if that's the best solution yet.
Sorry, I'm being dumb. I've already fixed this by allowing || ( libva-compat libva ) in steam-client-meta but you worded this differently to the other guy so I didn't realise at first. Resync steam-overlay and you should be okay. If you're using esteam then you may still face this issue but I can't fix it there so you'd have to work around it with package.accept_keywords.
