Re: [gentoo-user] emerge conflict

[Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>]

On 09/17/2016 04:12 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

It doesn't look like just vim - it looks like exiftool, graphite2,
cups-filters, gvim, and imagemagick all are blocking.

I'd guess that these packages need a version bump or you need to unmask
one of the newer builds (most likely they haven't been stabilized yet.)

Dan