From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kz4tW-0001av-Jg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:39:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90220E0346; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 07:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [208.79.16.96]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78629E0346 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 07:39:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-71-171-110-105.clppva.fios.verizon.net [71.171.110.105]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id mA97dYAq024615 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:39:36 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id mA97dU26013030; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:39:33 -0500 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.13.7/Submit) id mA97dUZV013020; Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:39:30 -0500 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18710.37809.826570.173229@ccs.covici.com> Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:39:29 -0500 From: John covici To: Stroller Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org, John covici Subject: [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 In-Reply-To: <244A2EC0-AE4E-4B37-8E91-8595BF26A227@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> References: <18710.25193.638469.809440@ccs.covici.com> <244A2EC0-AE4E-4B37-8E91-8595BF26A227@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Archives-Salt: 26d38d88-47d7-4b96-a80d-1ee3e911f89c X-Archives-Hash: e4a118676e9ec95c45301c9cad45f10b 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