[gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[John covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

on Sunday 11/09/2008 Stroller(stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) wrote
 > 
 > On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote:
 > 
 > > In my latest update I have received the following message:
 > > !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
 > > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
 > >
 > > media-libs/win32codecs:0
 > >
 > >  ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
 > >  pulled in by
 > >    ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
 > >    @world
 > >
 > >  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
 > >  pulled in by
 > >    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
 > >    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
 > >    @world
 > >
 > >
 > > ...
 > > Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what?  HOw can I fix
 > > this?
 > 
 > I believe so:
 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html
 > 
 > I'm guessing that it's this that's causing the problems you describe  
 > above. You mentioned package unmasking, and this is recommended in the  
 > referenced forums post for those that require Real, but you might just  
 > try unmerging win32codecs & realcodecs & trying your update again.
 > 
 > I discovered this reorganisation because updating my system showed  
 > mplayer updating with the real USE flag being forcibly disabled, i.e.:
 > [ebuild     U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 [1.0_rc2_p26753- 
 > r1] USE="...  -radio (-real*) -rtc ... " 0 kB
 > Someone on #gentoo was able to help because they'd experienced the  
 > issue this morning.
 > 
 > It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these codecs  
 > are actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram playlists &  
 > audio files. One would assume so, except for beandog's statement  
 > "Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are hardly used  
 > anymore, and most people will be fine without them."
 > 
 > I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other Friday /  
 > Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can burn their  
 > shows to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the week. As a  
 > consequence later tonight I will be testing mplayer's ability to  
 > handle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram without  
 > these packages installed.
 > 

Well, the forum post helped, except that package.unmask seems to be in
/etc/portage and I thought he had said it was in /etc/portage/profile
-- I will have to try things after the merge is complete.  I think I
fixed things so I am using the codecs from realplayer -- hope they
will work.

Thanks a lot for your help.

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici
         covici@ccs.covici.com