Emerge update fails on my system due to a cyclic dependency between poppler and xpdf: emerge -auD world [...] [blocks B ] <app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4) [ebuild N ] app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4 [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r7 [1.1.23-r4] [ebuild N ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [ebuild U ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r5 [3.01-r3] [ebuild U ] games-arcade/rocksndiamonds-3.1.2 [3.1.1] [ebuild U ] app-antivirus/clamav-0.88 [0.87.1] [ebuild U ] sys-process/psmisc-21.9 [21.6] !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! on the same system. Even an update of xpdf alone cases problems: emerge -auD xpdf These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <app-text/xpdf-3.01-r4 (is blocking app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4) [ebuild N ] app-text/poppler-0.4.3-r4 [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r7 [1.1.23-r4] [ebuild N ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [ebuild U ] app-text/xpdf-3.01-r5 [3.01-r3] !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! on the same system. emerge info Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib64/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://194.117.143.71/mirrors/gentoo http://194.117.143.70" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X acl alsa ansi arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr clisp crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gcl gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile idn imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde lcms ldap libwww lm-sensors lua lzw lzw-tiff mad mhash mikmod mng mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pda pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline recode ruby samba sdl speex spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116933 ***