Since some time I am getting the following errors while doing update world on my dektop machine (running amd64 stable):
-------------------------------------8<------------------------------------ These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722 [20110129] USE="-development" 34,381 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20110722 [20110129-r1] USE="-development" 44,036 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE="opengl -development" 2,586 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20110722 [20110129] USE="-development" 4,714 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20110722 [20110129] USE="-development" 7,874 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE="alsa -development -pulseaudio" 5,966 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-qtlibs-20110722 [20110129] USE="-development" 16,626 kB Total: 7 packages (7 upgrades), Size of downloads: 116,180 kB !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs:0 (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-motif-20110129::gentoo, installed) (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (and 2 more with the same problem) app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs:0 (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110722 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110722::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (and 4 more with the same problem) (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) pulled in by ~app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20110129 required by (app- emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20110129::gentoo, installed) -------------------------------------8<------------------------------------ What would be the correct way to resolve this issue? I am a little bit afraid to start unmerging any of these packages as among other things sys-boot/grub depends on some of them. Regards, -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************