I had a system with servletapi-2.4 and commons-beanutils-1.7, however when trying to emerge commons-digester (depends on commons-beanutils-1.6) and struts (depends on servlet-api-2.3) both failed their emerge. When I did a emerge -p <commons-digester || struts>, it reported that I had all my dependencies and it was ready to go (e.g. just the N and the new package). I had to go back and emerge the old versions, and once I did this, both struts and common-digester worked. I'm using blackdown-jdk-1.4.2 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have only commons-beanutils-1.7 OR servlet-api 2.4 2. Try to emerge commons-digester 1.6 OR struts 3. Note error and lack of dependency check Actual Results: It tried to emerge, both stated (in red font) the missing package, but continued to try to build anyway. Expected Results: It should have shown the dependencies needed and emerged in the slotted old versions
The slot where added later, so you probably didn't update to the latest version So it wasn't slotted correctly. We can't depend on those version because portage doesn't support version ranges(yet?). you should use the -u -D options to keep everything up-to-date emerge -puD world
