It seems that I need both =dev-libs/expat-1.95.8 and =dev-libs/expat-2.0.0; I changed the ebuild of the latter so that it has SLOT="1", recreated md5sum for it in `Manifest', end reemerge it coexisting with 1.95.8; the only problem is that libexpat.so points to `libexpat.so.1.5.0', though it also belongs to 1.95.8... Here are packages depending on 1.95.8 (as found via `revdep-rebuild --library=/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0`): net-misc/neon-0.26.1-r1 sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r2 sys-devel/gettext-0.15-r1 dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.72 x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.3.3 dev-perl/XML-Parser-2.34 Here are packages depending on 2.0.0 (as found via `revdep-rebuild --library=/usr/lib/libexpat.so.1`): app-arch/rpm2targz-9.0-r5 app-arch/rpm-4.4.6-r3 sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2 dev-libs/expat-1.95.8 dev-libs/expat-2.0.0 dev-libs/pwlib-1.10.2-r1 media-libs/libwmf-0.2.8.4 media-libs/mesa-6.5.1-r4 media-gfx/gimp-2.3.13 media-gfx/graphviz-2.8-r2 media-gfx/gimageview-0.2.27-r2 net-libs/opal-2.2.3 It is strange that expat itself appears above... Here is `emerge --info`: Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19 i686 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3300+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.7 Last Sync: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:00:02 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo" LINGUAS="dk en en_GB en_US hu nl ro sv" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa auctex audacious bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bittorrent blas bzip2 cairo cardbus cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cdsound chroot cli cmucl colordiff compress corba cpio cracklib crypt cups curl curlwrappers dbus dga directfb divx dlloader dmalloc dmi dnd dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode examples exif expat fam fame fat fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox fpx gcj gdb gdbm gif gimp gimpprint ginac gkrellm glade glib glut gnutls gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtk2 guile hal haskell iconv icq id3 ide imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 imqge input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_synaptics input_devices_void intl ipv6 isdnlog itcl ithreads java javascript jpeg jpeg2k jython kernel_linux lame lapack latex lcms ldap leim libg++ linguas_dk linguas_en linguas_en_GB linguas_en_US linguas_hu linguas_nl linguas_ro linguas_sv live lzo lzw mad math mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mmxext motif mouse mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpi mplayer msn mule ncurses net network nls nojoystick nptl nptlonly numeric ocaml office ogg openal opendoc opengl oss pam pango pascal pcmcia pcre pdf perl planner player png posix ppds pppd preview-latex ps python qt3 qt4 quicktime quotas rar readline real reflection rpm rtc sasl sdl session shared sharedmem speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl subtitles svg swat sylpheed sysfs syslog sysvipc t1lib tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk transcode truetype truetype-fonts type type1-fonts udev unicode unzip usb userland_GNU utf8 v4l v4l2 vdr video_cards_sis video_cards_v4l vnc voice vorbis wifi win32codecs wma wmf wmp wxgtk1 wxwindows x11vnc xinetd xml xorg xpm xrandr xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo yv12 zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
No, it really shouldn't. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128069 ***
> No, it really shouldn't. yes, indeed, I used `revdep-rebuild' and now only expat-2.0.0 is installed...