Today gui-apps/swaybg was updated from 9999 to 1.0. It is marked as conflicting with gui-wm/sway. If you disable the swaybg flag in gui-wm/sway, swaybg is not pulled in by emerging sway, but still conflicts with it if emerged individually. If you enable the flag when emerging sway it pulls swaybg in, but blocks sway. sudo emerge -av sway Password: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] gui-apps/swaybg-1.0::gentoo USE="man" 16 KiB [ebuild R ] gui-wm/sway-1.1_rc1::gentoo USE="X man swaybar swaybg* swayidle swaylock swaymsg swaynag systemd tray wallpapers zsh-completion (-elogind) -fish-completion" 0 KiB [blocks B ] <=gui-wm/sway-1.1 ("<=gui-wm/sway-1.1" is blocking gui-apps/swaybg-1.0) Total: 2 packages (1 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 16 KiB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (gui-wm/sway-1.1_rc1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by sway gui-wm/sway required by @selected
*** Bug 685016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This is fixed in: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ce0ebfae36d50fe135b238be4b398bbf46d5d5c5
