From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kswkl-0001gb-AL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:45:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 159B7E0388; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:45:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9121E0388 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:45:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so49175ywm.46 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:45:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Viyb06kb1R42NbMDFZ0DTwxovweZh9geaQCNN68yc5U=; b=mivdg3Av20LD5xzVUWLO6L4VO9Xg+CLenRf2rZizMbjx3//lrO7lmubbAWpig/6Sl5 Wu9sbTyOhbfaJxMQ2AViey/0FWC5Wikyc4PfWB+w/Q9cTQP18TVmKQucrTLQBiIpDaqG t7iWbwmfXoMWHOLZ1QHbkwAKbEnZPMcKEj8nA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=flBdXQ9mKL2SyWirdrliGk/JQxDeasRKC7FvGsqPv5ULn3DhBW7e1g9kTZ2hQyIxXI 3On+ZCGNFxNWWVX7vCyHyOhY7MHiR0X6k5y4/wz4uEmk/dXpEFkec6zFHKGyBVnRGOs9 cebUrZkEnz8qxFfdfpV8jAjj6sBBRM+bTK0eQ= Received: by 10.100.9.6 with SMTP id 6mr212872ani.124.1224755111570; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.af.didata.local (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b14sm2996104ana.23.2008.10.23.02.45.09 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:45:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying KDE-4 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:45:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200810191454.24606.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <48FF71A8.3090808@googlemail.com> <200810231028.49496.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> In-Reply-To: <200810231028.49496.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810231145.06157.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 40572237-1d5b-43a8-92d8-2d73b73e520c X-Archives-Hash: 2063b41e56d1b28e8c0eceb3cc9313df 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) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com