On 09/17/2016 04:12 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> Starting my regular Sat system update, 'eix-sync' told me (equivalent) :
>
> root:524 ~> eix ^perl$
> [U] dev-lang/perl
> Available versions: 5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20) ~5.22.0(0/5.22)
> ~5.22.1(0/5.22) 5.22.2(0/5.22) ~5.24.0(0/5.24) ~5.24.0-r1(0/5.24) {berkdb
> debug doc gdbm ithreads}
> Installed versions: 5.20.2([2015-10-04 11:34:10])(gdbm -berkdb -debug -doc
> -ithreads)
>
> So I tried 'emerge -pv perl' & was told the current version of (G)Vim
> required the earlier installed version of Perl.
> After updating to the latest testing version of (G)Vim, I tried again :
>
> root:522 ~> emerge -pv perl
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo USE="-berkdb -debug
> -doc gdbm -ithreads" 0 KiB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>
> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency
> conflict:
>
> dev-lang/perl:0
>
> (dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts
> with
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (media-libs/exiftool-10.20:0/0::gentoo,
> installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
> (dev-perl/File-MimeInfo-0.270.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> =dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by
> (virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.100-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^ ^^^^^^^
> =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by
> (virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.330.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^ ^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (media-gfx/graphite2-1.3.8:0/0::gentoo,
> installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by
> (net-print/cups-filters-1.5.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
> (dev-perl/File-DesktopEntry-0.40.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
> (dev-perl/File-BaseDir-0.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (app-editors/gvim-8.0.0005:0/0::gentoo,
> installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
> (perl-core/Data-Dumper-2.154.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.8:0/5.20= required by
> (media-gfx/imagemagick-6.9.4.6:0/6.9.4.6::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by
> (perl-core/File-Temp-0.230.400-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
> dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (app-editors/vim-8.0.0005:0/0::gentoo,
> installed)
> ^^^^^^^^
>
> Portage is refusing to update to the latest stable Perl,
> whether I have an earlier version of Vim (-13xx) or the latest version.
>
> How do I update Perl without dropping Vim ?
>
It doesn't look like just vim - it looks like exiftool, graphite2,
cups-filters, gvim, and imagemagick all are blocking.
I'd guess that these packages need a version bump or you need to unmask
one of the newer builds (most likely they haven't been stabilized yet.)
Dan
