Bug 65605

Summary:	can't build mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre with x11-base/xorg-x11
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Matt Zukowski <matt>
Component:	Core - Dependencies	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	VERIFIED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	mozilla
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Matt Zukowski 2004-09-27 16:41:51 UTC

portage reports that tht xorg-x11 is blocked for this build, and xfree-4.3.0-r7 is required

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
emerge xorg-x11
emerge mozilla-firefox

Actual Results:  
# emerge -a mozilla-firefox

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] x11-base/xorg-x11 (from pkg x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r7)
[ebuild  N    ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r7
[ebuild     U ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre [0.9.1]

Do you want me to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y

!!! Error: the x11-base/xorg-x11 package conflicts with another package.
!!!        both can't be installed on the same system together.
!!!        Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.


Expected Results:  
# emerge -a mozilla-firefox

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild     U ] net-www/mozilla-firefox-1.0_pre [0.9.1]

Comment 1 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-27 20:31:47 UTC

mozilla-firefox isn't asking for xfree, it's something else...  I'm not sure what causes this, so I'll ask around and get back to you

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-09-27 20:51:32 UTC

you neglected to provide `emerge info` like the bug report page says to

re-open once you have

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-11 11:01:14 UTC

Closing due to old age