A moment ago, I just tried to install meld on My gentoo on ThinkPad notebook at work. I've got one blocking package and one which was with conflict.
I decided to reinstall one of conflicting package from require list to install meld and portage repair all conflicts by update another package.
The problem of portage is that portage can't resolve conflicts by "Step by Step" and can't reorder package to install when conflicts was found.
But is a liitle, tiny, and trival problem, becouse the power of resolving conflicts is assined to gentoo user :D
I decided to reinstall one of conflicting package from require list to install meld and portage repair all conflicts by update another package.
The problem of portage is that portage can't resolve conflicts by "Step by Step" and can't reorder package to install when conflicts was found.
But is a liitle, tiny, and trival problem, becouse the power of resolving conflicts is assined to gentoo user :D