Unable to install spotifyd and spotify-tui alongside each other

[invakid404]

When attempting to install spotifyd and spotify-tui one after another, portage complains that "/usr/.crates2.json" is already owned by the other package and merging fails. Exact error portage throws:
`* This package will overwrite one or more files that may belong to other

• packages (see list below). You can use a command such as `portageq
• owners / ` to identify the installed package that owns a
• file. If portageq reports that only one package owns a file then do
• NOT file a bug report. A bug report is only useful if it identifies at
• least two or more packages that are known to install the same file(s).
• If a collision occurs and you can not explain where the file came from
• then you should simply ignore the collision since there is not enough
• information to determine if a real problem exists. Please do NOT file
• a bug report at https://bugs.gentoo.org/ unless you report exactly
• which two packages install the same file(s). See
• https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Blockers for tips on how
• to solve the problem. And once again, please do NOT file a bug report
• unless you have completely understood the above message.
• Detected file collision(s):
• /usr/.crates2.json
• Searching all installed packages for file collisions...
• Press Ctrl-C to Stop
• media-sound/spotify-tui-0.10.0:0::rust
• /usr/.crates2.json
• Package 'media-sound/spotifyd-0.2.20' NOT merged due to file
• collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole
• content of the above message.
  `

[maffe03]

I solved the problem by removing the file, but that's probably broken something, hasn't it?

[zamlz]

I too have this error unfortunately. I want to avoid having to delete the file to install both spotifyd and spotify-tui. I was also wondering why I have to manually pull in dev-lang/rust. Shouldn't the packages themselves try to pull that in (I'm getting cargo not found error).