=gnome-extra/gnome-games-2.24.1.1 depends on gnome-python-desktop, which is a pre-2.24 package. This causes blockers when attempting to install this package with other 2.24 python packages (e.g. hamster-applet). Instead, the ebuild should depend on the new gnome-python-desktop-base package. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the equivalent of gnome-light in gnome 2.24 using the Gentoo overlay. 2. Install hamster-applet-2.24.2. 3. Attempt to install gnome-games-2.24.1.1. Actual Results: Blockers between gnome-python packages for gnome 2.22 and gnome 2.24 Expected Results: gnome games installs fine. Portage 2.1.6_rc2 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r9-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T7250_@_2.00GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:46:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/gnome /usr/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdaudio cdda cddb cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups daap dbus dell dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam ffmpeg firefox fortran fuse gdbm gif glib gnome gnome-keyring gphoto2 gpm grub gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog java jpeg kerberos laptop ldap libnotify lm_sensors mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam parport pcre pdf perl pmu png ppds pppd python qt3support quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sound spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype unicode usb vcd vim vim-syntax vorbis wifi win32codecs x86 xinerama xml xorg xrandr xulrunner xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Created attachment 173713 [details, diff] Proposed patch to fix dependency.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 108479 ***
actually, this is wrong. base does not provide anything. The proper way would be to list every import and check which gnome-python package provides it.