emerge -puDv --newuse --keep-going @world @system These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20090203 [20080928] 41 kB [ebuild U ] app-admin/logrotate-3.7.8 [3.7.7] USE="(-selinux)" 43 kB [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-4.0_p10 [3.2_p48-r1] USE="examples net nls plugins -afs -bashlogger -vanilla" 6,109 kB [ebuild U ] app-forensics/lynis-1.2.3-r1 [1.2.3] 0 kB [ebuild U ] app-misc/hal-info-20090309 [20090202] 135 kB [ebuild U ] app-emacs/org-mode-6.24a [6.24] 1,885 kB [ebuild U ] sys-cluster/openmpi-1.3 [1.2.8] USE="cxx%* fortran ipv6 threads -debug -heterogeneous -mpi-threads -pbs -romio (-nocxx%)" 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-lang/ruby-1.8.7_p72-r10 [1.8.6_p287-r12] USE="berkdb doc emacs examples gdbm ipv6 ssl threads tk -debug -rubytests -socks5 -xemacs" 4,031 kB [ebuild R ] dev-python/dbus-python-0.83.0-r1 USE="examples%* -test" 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.5 [0.4.9_p20090201-r1] USE="3dnow 3dnowext%* X aac alsa amr doc encode hardcoded-tables ieee1394 ipv6 jpeg2k%* mmx mmxext mp3 oss schroedingersdl speex ssse3 theora threads v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 xvid zlib (-altivec) -bindist -custom-cflags -debug -dirac -gsm -network -test -vhook" 2,681 kB [ebuild U ] app-office/gnumeric-1.8.4-r1 [1.8.4] USE="gnome perl python -debug" 0 kB [ebuild UD] media-video/transcode-1.0.7 [1.1.1-r3] USE="X a52 dv dvdread fame%* iconv imagemagick jpeg lzo mjpeg mmx mp3 mpeg%* network%* nuv ogg oss quicktime sdl sse sse2 theora truetype v4l2 vorbis xml xvid -3dnow (-altivec) -extrafilters% (-aac%*) (-alsa%*) (-postproc%*) (-x264%*)" 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-dotnet/art-sharp-2.24.1 [2.24.0-r10] USE="-debug" 435 kB [ebuild U ] dev-dotnet/gnomevfs-sharp-2.24.1 [2.24.0-r10] USE="-debug" 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-dotnet/gnome-sharp-2.24.1 [2.24.0-r10] USE="-debug" 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-video/dvdrip-0.98.10-r1 [0.98.10] USE="ffmpeg hal mplayer ogg vorbis xine xvid -fping -subtitles -vcd" 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-dotnet/gconf-sharp-2.24.1 [2.24.0-r10] USE="-debug" 0 kB [ebuild U ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.0 [2.1.3] USE="hal -debug" 282 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-base/nautilus-2.24.2-r1 [2.24.2] USE="X doc gnome -beagle -debug -tracker -xmp" 0 kB [ebuild U ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.1-r1 [4.2.1] USE="acl alsa bzip2 doc fam jpeg2k mmx nls openexr opengl semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl -3dnow (-altivec) -bindist -debug -kdeprefix -kerberos -test -zeroconf" 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-util/kdevelop-3.5.4 [3.5.3] USE="ada cvs fortran java perl python ruby sql subversion -clearcase -debug -haskell -pascal -perforce -php -xinerama" 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-tv/mtvg-7.3.2-r1 [7.3.2] USE="xml -debug -xinerama (-arts%*)" 0 kB Total: 22 packages (20 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 15,637 kB !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: media-video/transcode:0 ('installed', '/', 'media-video/transcode-1.1.1-r3', 'nomerge') pulled in by media-video/transcode required by ('installed', '/', 'app-cdr/k3b-1.0.5-r3', 'nomerge') ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/transcode-1.0.7', 'merge') pulled in by media-video/transcode[dvdread,jpeg,mp3,mpeg,ogg,vorbis] required by ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/dvdrip-0.98.10-r1', 'merge') (and 1 more) Explanation: New USE are correctly set, but --newuse wasn't requested, so an installed package with incorrect USE happened to get pulled into the dependency graph. In order to solve this, either specify the --newuse option or explicitly reinstall 'media-video/transcode:0'. 1) As can be seen, --newuse is requested 2) After emerging media-video/transcode:0, the same messages are displayed emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc24 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-rc7-00102-g7a203f3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-rc7-00102-g7a203f3-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6700_@_2.66GHz-with-glibc2.0 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:15:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r15, 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" 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/bind /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="buildsyspkg distlocks fixpackages installsources parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.first-world.info/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.tiscali.nl/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB en fr_FR fr" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/perl-experimental /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth bonobo branding browserplugin bzip2 bzlib cairo caps cddb cdparanoia cdr cjk clicracklib crypt cups curl cvs cxx dbus directfb doc dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo examples exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac fontconfig foomaticdb fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm geoip gif glut gmp gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal htmlhandbook iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java javascript jbig jce jpeg jpeg2k junit kde kdehiddenvisibility ladspa latex lcms ldap leim libgda libnotify libsamplerate libwww lirc lm_sensors logrotate lua m17n-lib mad matroska mbox midi mikmod milter mime mmap mmx mng modplug mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mpi mplayer msn mudflap musepack ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oscar oss pam pcntl pcre pdf perl plasma png postgres ppds pppd profile pulseaudio python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline recode reflection ruby sasl sdl session sharedmem sndfile snmp sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subversion svg sysfs sysvipc tcl tcltk tcpd theora threads tiff tk truetype uicktime unicode usb v4l v4l2 vim-syntax vorbis wavpack win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xattr xcb xface xft xine xml xml2 xorg xulrunner xv xvid yahoo zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CAMERAS="canon ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB en fr_FR fr" LIRC_DEVICES="asusdh" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon vesa fbdev vga v4l" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
So is your concern really portage being quite unhelpful or do you rather want to have bug #261889 fixed? (which already happened)
(In reply to comment #1) > So is your concern really portage being quite unhelpful or do you rather want > to have bug #261889 fixed? (which already happened) > That portage was unhelpful. Previous versions just announced that different versions cannot be installed in the same slot. Neither of the two possible actions suggested by portage 'fixed' the problem. From past experience with this type of blockage, I did not expect either of portage's suggestions to work. I always use --newuse, and I think that every time I have seen 'multiple version' blockages that the eventual solution (as in this case) has been a change to one (or more) of the ebuilds which wants to pull in the 'downgrade'.
This is fixed in svn r13059.
This is fixed in 2.2_rc25 which is in package.mask. I'll close this bug when it's also released in 2.1.6.8.
This is released in 2.1.6.8.
