Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdelibs insanity

[Alex Alexander <wired@gentoo.org>]

You need to enable qt3support globally. Also make sure you have dbus
enabled for at least qt-gui.

Qt packages' USE defaults were changed recently (reduced to a bare
minimum) thats why you're hitting this.

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On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 21:45, Mark Haney<mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> I'm beginning to wonder if Gentoo is right for me any more.  I swear,
> the dependencies and USE flag changes are killing me.  Here's my latest fun:
>
> I'm trying to upgrade kdelibs (to 4.2.4-r4) and I get this:
>
>> octavian ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -uav kdelibs
>>
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[-debug,-qt3support]".
>> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
>> - x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (Change USE: -qt3support)
>> (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.4-r4" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "kdelibs" [argument])
>>
>
> So, based on that I need to change my USE flag for qt-core-4.5.2 to
> [-qt3support], okay. I go into /etc/portage/package.use/monolithic to this:
>
> x11-libs/qt-core -qt3support (actually I just comment out the line, but
> in effect I'm removing qt3support from qt-core).
>
> When I do so and I re-run the update I get this:
>
>> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[glib,qt3support,-debug]".
>> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
>> - x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (Change USE: +qt3support)
>> (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.4-r4" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "kdelibs" [argument])
>
> So, which is it?  It can't be both ways, and to be honest, trying to
> figure out which file needs which USE flag on what day is getting kinda
> silly.
>
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