I am coming across this more often lately - last was curl with openssl or nss - anoying!
Try removing ffmpeg and then re-emerging it. It will usually complain about some other package with use flag problems so remove that too [rinse and repeat as neccessary] until eventually it works and puts back the chain of packages you have just removed ... BillK On Sun, 2012-10-07 at 00:58 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > Situation: I have ffmpeg on my netbook, emerged without the "sdl" USE > flag. I've run into a scenario where I want it emerged with sdl. The > usual response is to to add the "sdl" USE flag (either in make.conf or > in package.use) and simply "emerge ffmpeg" again. But... > > ====================================================================== > > [aa1][root][~] emerge ffmpeg > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.3 USE="sdl*" > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > media-video/ffmpeg:0 > > (media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by > (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) > > (media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.3::gentoo, installed) pulled in by > > >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.10.2[X=,encode=,jpeg2k=,mp3=,sdl=,theora=,threads=,truetype=,vaapi=,vdpau=,x264=] > required by (virtual/ffmpeg-0.10.2-r1::gentoo, installed) > > > !!! Enabling --newuse and --update might solve this conflict. > !!! If not, it might help emerge to give a more specific suggestion. > > ==================================================================== > > What is it whining about?!?! I want to overwrite it, not pull in a > second version side-by-side. I tried the suggestion, but no luck... > > > ==================================================================== > > [aa1][root][~] emerge --newuse ffmpeg > Calculating dependencies... done! > >>> Auto-cleaning packages... > > >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. > > [aa1][root][~] emerge --newuse --update ffmpeg > Calculating dependencies... done! > >>> Auto-cleaning packages... > > >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. > > [aa1][root][~] emerge --update ffmpeg > Calculating dependencies... done! > >>> Auto-cleaning packages... > > >>> No outdated packages were found on your system. > [aa1][root][~] > > ==================================================================== > > I said "screw it" (or words to that effect<G>), unmerged ffmpeg, and > re-emerged it. The emerge is running as I type. >
