Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 23 October 2008 11:28:49 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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.

Finally, we can see what you are running into.

This is a stable box and you are trying to install latest kde:4 onto it right?

emerge is trying to install qt-4.3.3 which is marked stable and conflicts with 
what kde-4.1.2 wants

generate an autounmask for qt


>
> > 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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