From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPveR-0007Er-8B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:47:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9DF3FE040B; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aplus.dartworks.biz (aplus.dartworks.biz [206.225.82.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C7DCE040B for ; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:47:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dartworks.biz (adsl-76-195-6-45.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net [::ffff:76.195.6.45]) (AUTH: CRAM-MD5 mercury) by aplus.dartworks.biz with esmtp; Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:47:16 -0700 id 0037C00B.4A59B124.00002DF1 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:46:41 -0700 From: Keith Dart To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Persistent conflict between readline 5 and 6 Message-ID: <20090712024641.3efb507a@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20090712051754.GA2303@crowfix.com> References: <20090712051754.GA2303@crowfix.com> Organization: Dartworks X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 74ea1f7f-862d-420b-9d2a-6298f5cde300 X-Archives-Hash: 85190af22d3cdc9e4e81d0a98b128917 === On Sat, 07/11, felix@crowfix.com wrote: === > This has been going on now for months. Is there some reason these two > can't co-exist? Or is there some better fix than just ignoring it or > adding an entry to package.mask? === It's probably a bug that the readline package is not slotted. It is possible to have multiple versions of it installed on a system. Alternatively the ghc package could use some maintenance. It's the only one I know of that has that dependency locked to 5. for a quick fix you can lock readline to 5 in /etc/portage/package.mask -- Keith Dart -- -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Keith Dart public key: ID: 19017044 =====================================================================