Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update

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

On Sunday 25 October 2009 15:26:19 Alan E. Davis wrote:
> To follow up, after removing "qt" (by mistake), and all the qt-* packages I
> could find, this is what I found when running "emerge -uDav world""
> 
> x11-libs/qt-gui:4
> 
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts with
>     ~x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2[-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/',
> 'x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1', 'merge')

Something wants qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1

> x11-libs/qt-sql:4
> 
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.3', 'merge') conflicts with
> 
>     >=x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.0:4[mysql] required by ('installed', '/',
> 
> 'app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1', 'nomerge')

akonadi-server requires qt-sql with USE=mysql

> x11-libs/qt-core:4
> 
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts with
>     ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[qt3support,-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/',
> 'x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2', 'merge')
> 
> x11-libs/qt-dbus:4
> 
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.3', 'merge') conflicts with
>     ~x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2[-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/',
> 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2', 'merge')
> 
> media-libs/x264:0
> 
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/x264-0.0.20090923', 'merge') conflicts with
>     <media-libs/x264-0.0.20090908 required by ('installed', '/',
> 'media-video/avidemux-2.5.1-r2', 'nomerge')

We need to establish why qt-4.5.2 packages are being pulled in instead of 
4.5.3

Please run emerge -avuNDt world and post that (snipping irrelevant bits as 
appropriate).

You might have left a qt-*-4.5.2 package installed by mistake, or some other 
package is hard-coded to require a qt-4.5.2 version.

The solution for the first is to uninstall the package you missed, the 
solution for the second is to unmerge the offending package and remerge it 
(but recent portage should be taking care of that all by itself). Either way 
emerge -t will provide clues.


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