Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

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

Apparently, though unproven, at 23:29 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did 
opine thusly:

> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale
> > did
> > 
> > opine thusly:
> >>     (x11-libs/qt-multimedia-4.6.3, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in
> >>     by
> >>   >
> >>   >=x11-libs/qt-multimedia-4.6.0:4 required by (app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1,
> >> 
> >> ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > 
> > There you go. That's the one.
> > 
> > Everything else in the conflicts list is in the format of "qt-4.7.1
> > pulled by
> > 
> >> =qt-4.6.3 pulled in by..."
> > 
> > That one starts with 4.6.3, it's different. The pulled in by simply says
> > that it's the version chosen by portage because k3b (and lots of other
> > stuff, remember) needs it. Which doesn't explain why it's *that*
> > version.
> > 
> > Till you look at eix qt-multimedia and see that 4.6.3 is keyword arch.
> > 
> > I bet you forgot to keyword it unstable.
> > 
> >> I get the same when I disable hal.  I need to see if anything else uses
> >> hal and if not, get rid of it.  By the way, I unmerged the qt stuff last
> >> night and KDE wouldn't come up.  So that won't work.
> >> 
> >> Your thoughts?  What am I missing?
> > 
> > Your brain? You tried to start KDE without qt! That's like wondering why
> > the box won't boot without a kernel :-)
> > 
> > You *sure* the gubment isn't putting something in the drinking water down
> > South where you are?
> > 
> > well, at least you relieved the evening tedium of watching config updates
> > from a server in Nigeria scroll on down the window :-)
> 
> That would be the problem.  I knew it was just me missing something.
> This is better:
> 
> root@fireball / # emerge -av k3b
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/qt-multimedia-4.7.1  USE="exceptions iconv
> (-aqua) -debug -pch" 206,806 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1  USE="dvd encode ffmpeg flac mad
> vcd vorbis wav (-aqua) -debug -emovix -hal (-kdeenablefinal) -lame
> -musepack -musicbrainz -sndfile -sox -taglib" LINGUAS="-ast -be -bg -ca
> -ca@valencia -cs -csb -da -de -el -en_GB -eo -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -gl
> -he -hi -hne -hr -hu -is -it -ja -km -ko -ku -lt -mai -nb -nds -nl -nn
> -oc -pa -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -se -sk -sl -sv -th -tr -uk -zh_CN
> -zh_TW" 0 kB
> 
> Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 206,806 kB
> 
> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
> 
> I wasn't clear enough.  I removed the 4.7 versions of qt, installed the
> 4.6 versions then tried to login to KDE.  It doesn't like the old
> version and I figured it wouldn't but tried anyway.
> 
> Glad to get this sorted out.  Whew !!

Yup, that output looks much better.

And you can take a roasting joke in your stride (good man!).

I think we all need to put our heads together and come up with sensible 
formatting for emerge's error output. Coz I'm sure getting tired of pawing my 
way through endless lines of cruft to get to the thing that really matters.


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