From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MPKRL-0007vE-Ji for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:03:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 76E35E01CF; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f211.google.com (mail-fx0-f211.google.com [209.85.220.211]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8DEE01CF for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:03:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm7 with SMTP id 7so897814fxm.34 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:03:16 -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:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=aecLtMG0kM1rMronktZMJdCik6L7vGEez4cwjIAmbcM=; b=S+MU6l3V9l2GW64iSUlOB2F299esR7jlYgR+He4b6e8HEQ+VuEAxVQSel/WU95Dz8U 5lzpwzTxKkWhEkhoKz1ReCE+6G2Qd8UAN0C4fykMGj9KGHqpKI72o3yRn/iz5rCnhb6X 0aHoMTjzZbKVeFmTcFkTtki4Vn3SVcKzJ0Uao= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=bzLUPdlOJOLeZEYmyn8VlIhepkG2pKsPL5j6mmPoE8GzUkY3crCWAzbFjZ2TrVpcDI 4wEgAIbxwI0odHM+ZzM/IQQ4+ru2snfBJFXHeTKaNZVyRrTTz0JzgmsBS+XQLEx0vz0F BO4ZWSeuX4juPXbKMnL2uCOR79YTJqeQHItS8= Received: by 10.86.54.7 with SMTP id c7mr1221018fga.24.1247248996678; Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:03:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e11sm79332fga.1.2009.07.10.11.03.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:03:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] complex depencies - how to cut the Gordian knot? Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:01:36 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Helmut Jarausch References: In-Reply-To: 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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907102001.36919.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 2d3fce7e-d819-468f-86cd-d0bcf0129a91 X-Archives-Hash: 149688d26605aa386f76be97f0b73fbc On Friday 10 July 2009 12:44:36 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I'm upgrading Gentoo nearly each day for 2 years now. > But once in a while I'm lost, like this time > > emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world > gives a lot of blockings which I don't quite understand (and there are > so many) - see below. > > I'd be very grateful to some hint how to proceed in such a case. > I've already looked at the dependencies of some of these packages > but I can't find the reason for those blockings. > > (I'm using portage 2.2_rc33) > > Many thanks for your help, > Helmut. You have a mixture of qt-4.5.1 and 4.5.2 packages there. Do you perhaps have x11-libs/qt installed? Unmerge it, it's a meta package and you don't need it. Let other apps that use qt pull in the necessary packages. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com