From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FPTuc-0002BY-LS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:24:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with SMTP id k310NaDH023345; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 00:23:36 GMT Received: from cicero2.cybercity.dk (cicero2.cybercity.dk [212.242.40.53]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k310Hged023743 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 00:17:42 GMT Received: from user2.cybercity.dk (user2.cybercity.dk [212.242.41.35]) by cicero2.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AD4244F00 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:17:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.2] (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by user2.cybercity.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id B36F5286786 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:17:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Bo Andresen To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 02:17:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200604010217.51634.bo.andresen@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: abd8296a-18fe-4170-91af-57787c708097 X-Archives-Hash: 8b896fe046ea6f60974a93afe1678825 On Saturday 01 April 2006 01:52, Lord Sauron wrote: > Hi, I'm having a bit more trouble. > > I'm trying to re-compile KDE so that maybe some functionality which > didn't compile right the first time will work. However, it says I've > got some broken dependencies. > > localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kbounce-3.4* (is blocking > kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdegames-3.4* (is [SNIP] > I don't know what to do. I don't want to loose Quanta+ or > KLaptopDaemon, and I frankly didn't know Kommander was there... > > Please help a old Debian person who isn't used to doing this stuff by > himself... Oh, I already tried emerge --depclean, but that didn't fix > all the problems apparently. In the mean time I'll try remerging > KLaptopDaemon, but I would like to resolve these issues to both learn > how and to make life easier in the future. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml#doc_chap2 You are trying to install the monolithic packages while what you have installed are the split packages. I would recommend that you stick with the split packages and emerge kde-meta instead of kde. That way you will have the option to uninstall packages that you don't use later on without having to remerge anything. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list