On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Quico Jurado <quico.jur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> I'm trying to update @world, and I'm getting a problem with blocking
> packages which I'm not sure if I understand. It looks like a circular
> blocking problem, but not sure.
>
> Here's what emerge is telling me:
>
> [ebuild U ] app-text/texlive-2016::gentoo [2015::gentoo] USE="X context
> detex dvi2tty extra graphics humanities jadetex luatex omega png pstricks
> publishers science tex4ht texi2html truetype xetex xindy xml -cjk -epspdf
> -games -metapost -music -pdfannotextractor" L10N="-af -ar -as -bg -bn -br
> -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en-GB -eo -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -gu
> -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -ia -id -is -it -ja -kn -ko -la -lo -lt -lv -ml -mn
> -mr -nb -nl -nn -no -or -pa -pl -pt -rm -ro -ru -sa -sco -sk -sl -sq -sr -sv
> -ta -te -th -tk -tr -uk -vi -zh" 0 KiB
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016, dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
> [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
> ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is hard blocking
> dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
>
> Total: 40 packages (36 upgrades, 1 new, 1 in new slot, 2 reinstalls, 2
> uninstalls), Size of downloads: 500,112 KiB
> Conflict: 9 blocks (6 unsatisfied)
>
> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
>
> And this is the update command that I'm running:
>
> emerge -uvaND --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world
>
> Any help is much appreciated.
>
> Cheers!
I ended up removing some of the packages reported as blocking other
packages, tagged 2015, as suggested in the wiki article [1], and was
able to proceed with the update.
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Parts/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages
