I have just checked the ebuild file of libpng-1.6.8, actually it's is
stable for X86.
So I am confused why emerge can not upgrade it automatically...


2014/1/5 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

> On 05/01/2014 17:57, ÕŶ«ÑÇ wrote:
> > Hi list,
> >
> > When I do a world upgrade, I have encountered the following slot
> conflict:
> >
> >
> > media-libs/libpng:0
> >
> >   (media-libs/libpng-1.5.17-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> >     media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by
> > (dev-python/wxpython-2.8.12.1-r1::gentoo, installed)
> >     >=media-libs/libpng-1.4:0/0= required by
> > (net-libs/webkit-gtk-1.8.3-r201::gentoo, installed)
> >     media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by (app-text/poppler-0.22.5::gentoo,
> > installed)
> >     media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by
> > (media-libs/libwebp-0.3.1::gentoo, installed)
> >     media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by
> > (net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r1::gentoo, installed)
> >     media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by (kde-base/kdelibs-4.11.4::gentoo,
> > installed)
> >
> >   (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)
> >
> >
> > My question is, seems upgrade to libpng-1.6.8 will solve the conflict,
> > why emerge cannot proceed this automatically? or there are some switches
> > to controller this?
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
> libpng-1.5.17-r1 is latest stable version
> libpng-1.6.8 is latest unstable version
>
> I suspect you are probably running a stable system with several packages
> marked unstable and one of those requires libpng-1.6.8
>
> To check, please post
>
> what is your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in make.conf?
>
> what is the output of
>
> grep -r libpng /etc/portage/
>
>
>
> --
> Alan McKinnon
> alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
>
>
>