From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04C561391DB for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:50:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CC693E0D9B; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:50:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from baptiste.telenet-ops.be (baptiste.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88D9E0D90 for ; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([94.226.55.127]) by baptiste.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id gDqc1n00s2khLEN01DqcAi; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:50:37 +0100 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:50:25 +0100 From: Tom Wijsman To: acm@muc.de Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please. Message-ID: <20140321145025.24b55e1b@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20140222211505.GB2639@acm.acm> References: <20140222211505.GB2639@acm.acm> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; 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: 6d9b0958-81a1-4d0b-b3b6-65d11f1bb457 X-Archives-Hash: 09e4cf814f48e8eea51ae6d984b59b66 On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:15:05 +0000 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > (media-libs/libpng-1.6.8::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in > this slot) Whenever you see this, "(no parents that ...)", you'll want to be aware that there is backtracking going on and that in this case it failed to find a solution through backtracking. Exactly, the rest of your emerge output you have cut away actually matters here; the part above could reveal that there perhaps might be a blocker stopping the backtracking, the part under reveals that you need to increase the backtracking value and try again (if no blocker). -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D