Subject: Re: bug#44870: Package installation issue: Try upgrading both `package' and `package', or remove one of them from the profile.

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 13:27:41 -0500

On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 04:16:30PM +0100, musics--- via Bug reports for GNU Guix wrote:
> I have this problem when installing the "polari" package:

[...]

> guix install: error: profile contains conflicting entries for glib

[...]

> hint: Try upgrading both `polari' and `lollypop', or remove one of them from the
> profile.
> 
> What is the solution?

The solution is as described in the hint: Try upgrading both 'polari'
and 'lollypop', or uninstall one of them.

You've hit a limitation in Guix's ability to allow multiple versions of
the same package to be installed in a profile, which is itself a
limitation in how the programs 'gstreamer' and 'dbus-glib' work.