stable amd64 gst-plugins-flac-0.8.7 is DEPEND="=media-libs/flac-1.1.0*" flac-1.1.1 was made stable on amd64 flac was updated, and at the next emerge -uDav world it wants to be downgraded gst-plugins-0.8.8 is DEPEND=">=media-libs/flac-1.1.1" but it's not amd64 (just x86 and ~amd64) solution: either set back flac-1.1.1 as ~amd64 or make gst-plugins-0.8.8 amd64 one of them should be chosen, otherwise the system is upgrading and downgrading flac all the time Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
From gstreamer team: maybe now is time to make gstreamer 0.8.9 stable on amd64 and all the gst-plugins 0.8.8 stable on amd64. They work well on my amd64 box and I use them heavily for streaming Dan: yah its unfortunate, flac changed its ABI in a minor release hence gst-plugins 0.8.7 only works with 1.1.0 and gst-plugins 0.8.8 with >= 1.1.1.
thanks for reporting, gstreamer-0.8.9-r3 as well as gstreamer plugins which have been approved as been stable are now marked as such