Re: [gentoo-user] qt blockages...

[Markos Chandras <markos.chandras@gmail.com>]

On Monday 19 January 2009 13:58:26 Dave Jones wrote:
> Mick wrote on 19/01/09 11:31:
> > 2009/1/18 Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>:
> >>   Indeed, I do have 4.3.3 installed and it is masked. I guess this
> >> must be one of those cases where the devs decided they didn't like
> >> something they used to like as I didn't do anything to unmask it
> >> myself.
> >>
> >>   I removed it and the blockages for emerge system have gone.
> >
> > Unfortunately mine is not as easy:
> > ==================================
> > x11-libs/qt:4
> >
> >   ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-4.3.3', 'merge') pulled in by
> >     =x11-libs/qt-4.3*:4 required by ('installed', '/',
> > 'media-video/vlc-0.9.8a', 'nomerge')
> >     =x11-libs/qt-4.3*:4 required by ('installed', '/',
> > 'net-im/skype-2.0.0.63', 'nomerge')
> >     =x11-libs/qt-4.3*:4 required by ('ebuild', '/',
> > 'x11-libs/qscintilla-2.3.2', 'merge')
> >     (and 3 more)
> >
> >   ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-4.4.2', 'merge') pulled in by
> >
> >     >=x11-libs/qt-4.3:4 required by ('installed', '/',
> >
> > 'app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7', 'nomerge')
> >     =x11-libs/qt-4* required by ('installed', '/',
> > 'net-wireless/wpa_supplicant-0.5.7', 'nomerge')
> >     x11-libs/qt required by world
> > ==================================
> >
> > I am running vlc-0.9.8a which is the only one available.  How could I
> > go about this?
>
> I had a similar problem here.
>
> emerge -C qt-4.3.3
> emerge -auDNv1 qt
> emerge -av vlc
> emerge -auDNv world
>
> Did the trick for me.
>
> My vlc USE flags:
>
> X a52 aac alsa cdda cddb cdio dbus dvd ffmpeg flac hal httpd libgcrypt
> libnotify matroska mmx mp3 mpeg ncurses nsplugin ogg opengl png qt4
> samba sdl sse stream svg theora truetype vcd vorbis win32codecs xml xv
>
> As an additional benefit, since the update to the  new qt4 libraries the
> VLC UI buttons are not messed up any more.  (bug 246116)
>
> Cheers, Dave


Since qt has been move from meta-package to separate split packages, you should 
unemerge qt-4.3* and then emerge the split packages. Having split packages is a 
great implementation  ,so dont shoot the developers. 
-- 
Markos Chandras (hwoarang)