On 07/09/2012 07:02 AM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Is there any way for portage to figure out that one of those is the > eventual outcome, and then direct the user to the minimal changes to > accomplish either?
You could try a larger emerge --backtrack setting. If it doesn't settle on a sensible solution, then it would be interesting to look at --debug output, to find out what has gone wrong. -- Thanks, Zac