From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4EC4F138330 for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:12:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C11FF21C08E; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5C0CDE0B2A for ; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 23:12:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6E612EA0C4; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vteqXGktb1HL; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-192.252-173-175.dyn.295.ca [192.252.173.175]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 11D762EA00E; Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:40 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 19:12:40 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: Gentoo User Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict Message-ID: <20160917231239.GD1289@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: Gentoo User 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-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Archives-Salt: 7e71b4ec-f8e8-4a83-9182-41c4de359774 X-Archives-Hash: 1c52614fff3586a095f1318b7d23a164 Starting my regular Sat system update, 'eix-sync' told me (equivalent) : root:524 ~> eix ^perl$ [U] dev-lang/perl Available versions: 5.20.2(0/5.20) ~5.20.2-r1(0/5.20) ~5.22.0(0/5.22) ~5.22.1(0/5.22) 5.22.2(0/5.22) ~5.24.0(0/5.24) ~5.24.0-r1(0/5.24) {berkdb debug doc gdbm ithreads} Installed versions: 5.20.2([2015-10-04 11:34:10])(gdbm -berkdb -debug -doc -ithreads) So I tried 'emerge -pv perl' & was told the current version of (G)Vim required the earlier installed version of Perl. After updating to the latest testing version of (G)Vim, I tried again : root:522 ~> emerge -pv perl These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo USE="-berkdb -debug -doc gdbm -ithreads" 0 KiB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-lang/perl:0 (dev-lang/perl-5.22.2:0/5.22::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (media-libs/exiftool-10.20:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/File-MimeInfo-0.270.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by (virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.100-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^ ^^^^^^^ =dev-lang/perl-5.20* required by (virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.330.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^ ^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (media-gfx/graphite2-1.3.8:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (net-print/cups-filters-1.5.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/File-DesktopEntry-0.40.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/File-BaseDir-0.30.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (app-editors/gvim-8.0.0005:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by (perl-core/Data-Dumper-2.154.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ >=dev-lang/perl-5.8.8:0/5.20= required by (media-gfx/imagemagick-6.9.4.6:0/6.9.4.6::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20=[-build(-)] required by (perl-core/File-Temp-0.230.400-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ dev-lang/perl:0/5.20= required by (app-editors/vim-8.0.0005:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^^^^ Portage is refusing to update to the latest stable Perl, whether I have an earlier version of Vim (-13xx) or the latest version. How do I update Perl without dropping Vim ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca