Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdelibs insanity

["Arttu V." <arttuv69@gmail.com>]

On 7/30/09, Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Donnerstag 30 Juli 2009, Mark Haney 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 kdelib
>> >
>> > 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.
>
> try syncing again. And masking qt3support fro qt-core is not enough. Either
> enable it globally or disable it globally - or add all your qt packages to
> package.use.

I don't think there is a need to sync. qt-core, qt-gui,qt-sql, and
qt-opengl just must all have either qt3support on or off, mixing them
with different USE flag settings won't work. Also, kde4-base.eclass
seems to require qt3support on, so there isn't much choice about
configuration here ... OP just hasn't gotten the whole mile, yet.

But you are right: OP should just enable qt3support in /etc/make.conf
-- or arduously list out at least the four qt-* packages with
qt3support enabled under his choice of files/dirs under /etc/portage
if he is a micromanagement-masochist.

About his pondering on whether Gentoo is right for him and about
Gentoo having been more and more work to maintain recently -- I
wholeheartedly agree. I just haven't found anything better, yet.

-- 
Arttu V.