Hi,

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:29:20AM -0800, Alan wrote:
> Greetings guys.  I'm just finishing up a setup of a 1.4_rc2 box and I
> tried to install a cd burning program for qt called koncd.  It requires
> qt 2.3.2, but emerge reports that it is blocked by the x11-libs/xft
> package.  These two don't seem related, and it seems a bit odd for the
> block.
> 
> Is this a bug, or will qt 2 provide xft (seems doubtful to me somehow).
> Can anyone explain?

well, qt-2 doesn't work with xft-2, only with xft-1.
xft-1 is provided by xfree ebuilds, xft-2 by x11-libs/xft ebuilds.

so i added !x11-libs/xft to depend, but removed it again, and added
-no-xft to qt's configure, since not all xfree ebuilds (xfree-4.2.99)
provide xft-1.x.

hth,

Hannes Mehnert