[gentoo-user] blocked package from rename?

[gentoo-user] blocked package from rename?

[Michael P. Soulier]

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I'm just curious about this block I noticed...

[uninstall    ] x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 
[blocks b     ] x11-libs/qt-core ("x11-libs/qt-core" is blocking
x11-libs/qt-4.3.3)
[blocks b     ] <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 ("<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4" is
blocking x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.2,
x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2)

So, presumably qt-core was renamed to just qt, so that's why I'm being told to
unmerge qt-core and merge qt?

I'm just curious about what causes this. I'm getting there slowly...

Thanks,
Mike
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touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
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[gentoo-user] Re: blocked package from rename?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I'm just curious about this block I noticed...
> 
> [uninstall    ] x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 
> [blocks b     ] x11-libs/qt-core ("x11-libs/qt-core" is blocking
> x11-libs/qt-4.3.3)
> [blocks b     ] <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 ("<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4" is
> blocking x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.2,
> x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2)
> 
> So, presumably qt-core was renamed to just qt, so that's why I'm being told to
> unmerge qt-core and merge qt?

The other way around.  There's no more "qt".  It has been split into 
"qt-core", "qt-gui", etc.

So in other words, x11-libs/qt will be unmerged as it's not needed anymore.

Re: [gentoo-user] blocked package from rename?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:09:42 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I'm just curious about this block I noticed...
>
> [uninstall    ] x11-libs/qt-4.3.3
> [blocks b     ] x11-libs/qt-core ("x11-libs/qt-core" is blocking
> x11-libs/qt-4.3.3)
> [blocks b     ] <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 ("<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4"
> is blocking x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.2,
> x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2)
>
> So, presumably qt-core was renamed to just qt, so that's why I'm being told
> to unmerge qt-core and merge qt?
>
> I'm just curious about what causes this. I'm getting there slowly...

No, it's a monolithic to split-ebuild switch

Remember when kde added kde*meta packages in addition to just kde*? 
qt did the same thing and the old large qt was replaced by several smaller qt-
* packages.

You have to unmerge qt and merge qt-*. They cannot co-exist as every file in 
qt-core collides with qt

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