Re: I need an explanation

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:43 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
> 100518 Lindsay Haisley wrote:
> > what I have to do to resolve it?
> >> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
> >> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> >> dev-python/gnome-vfs-python:2
> >>   ('installed', '/', 'dev-python/gnome-vfs-python-2.26.1', 'nomerge') pulled in by
> >>     >=dev-python/gnome-vfs-python-2.26.1 required by ('installed', '/', 'dev-python/libgnome-python-2.26.1', 'nomerge')
> >>     (and 2 more)
> >>   ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/gnome-vfs-python-2.22.3', 'merge') pulled in by
> >>     ~dev-python/gnome-vfs-python-2.22.3 required by ('installed', '/', 'dev-python/gnome-python-2.22.3', 'nomerge')
> >>     (and 2 more)
> 
> A quick suggestion by someone who doesn't use any of these is
> that you have incompatible versions of Libgnome-python & Gnome-python:
> the latter is a meta-pkg & an earlier version, so try unmerging it.

I'll take a look at this, but I'm looking for a broader understanding of
this kind of message since I'm getting a number of them (this is only
one set).  What's the difference between "required by" and "pulled in
by"?  Are these message documented and explained somewhere?

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