On Wednesday 22 October 2008 19:32:08 Daniel Pielmeier wrote:

> Please post again the output from emerge -pvutND world but attach it in
> a file so it doesn't get crippled by the mail program.

Attached.

> Also what I have seen from your previous tree output is that you are
> trying to do many things at one time. Upgrading to kde4 changing and
> changing many use flags. This makes debugging very hard. Try to do only
> one thing at a time

That's only because one thing leads to another. All I wanted to do was to 
install KDE-4; everything else I've tried has been to enable that. Of 
course I do try to do only one thing at a time - I had half a lifetime of 
debugging of one kind or another.

I started by running autounmask, as suggested by Neil B; that unmasked 81 
packages. Then I tried to update world - 82 times: one for each other 
package that needed unmasking. At the end of that I had all the packages 
unmasked that were required for an upgrade to KDE-4, but I also had the 
blocker that started this conversation. I've been trying to find the 
conflict in dependencies ever since, with your help - thanks again.

Here's another titbit:

$ equery d '<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4'
[ Searching for packages depending on <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4... ]
app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7 (qt4? >=x11-libs/qt-4.3:4)
x11-libs/qscintilla-2.1-r1 (qt4? =x11-libs/qt-4.3*:4)

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Rgds
Peter