The quicktime ebuilds don't always block other virtual/quicktime packages when they should. Try unmerging all the quicktime libraries and re-emerging all at once. Also, unmerge all and re-emerge in random order. The results are inconsistent. Sometimes they block properly and sometimes they don't. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start without any virtual/quicktime packages installed 2. Emerge all at once -- block fails 3. Unmerge all, merge one, then another -- block works Actual Results: Merge three at once. Block fails. # emerge -p media-libs/libquicktime media-libs/openquicktime media-libs/quicktime4linux These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-libs/libquicktime-0.9.2 [ebuild N ] media-libs/openquicktime-1.0-r1 [ebuild N ] media-libs/quicktime4linux-2.0.0-r1 Merge one, then another. Block works. # emerge -p media-libs/libquicktime These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N ] media-libs/libquicktime-0.9.2 [ merge a package and... ] # emerge -p media-libs/openquicktime These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] media-libs/libquicktime ("virtual/quicktime" from pkg media-libs/openquicktime-1.0-r1) [ebuild N ] media-libs/openquicktime-1.0-r1 I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature of portage. In any case, I don't think this should happen, should it?
Drat, forgot 'emerge info' stuff. Here goes: Portage 2.0.49-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wno-deprecated" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox ccache distcc" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 foomaticdb libg++ mad quicktime gdbm berkdb arts tetex svga ggi ruby gtk qt kde motif ldap -3dnow aalib alsa apm avi bonobo bots cdr crypt cups curl dedicated dga doc dvb dvd encode esd evo faad gb gd gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gtk2 gtkhtml guile i8x0 imlib -ipv6 jack java joystick jpeg kerberos krb4 ladcca lcms libgda libwww maildir mbox mikmod mmx mng mozilla mpeg nas ncurses nls oci8 odbc offensive ofx oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python readline samba scanner sdl slang slp snmp sox spell sqlite sse ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype type1 usb v4l vim-with-x wmf wxwindows X xml xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8810 ***
