On Thursday 25 Feb 2016 13:23:52 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 25/02/2016 03:05, allan gottlieb wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 24 2016, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> A finite subset of this package.use file will let skype install,
> >> followed of course by
> >> emerge skype.
> >> 
> >> I arrived at this list the long hard way, repeatedly running emerge and
> >> adding stuffs still portage stopped it's whinging. The worst part is Qt
> >> and X11 as skype is a Qt app and no longer bundles a local copy of Qt.
> > 
> > I tried your list.  It needed a few more.  When I added them, a slot
> > conflict again.  If this is easy to explain and fix, please let me know;
> > but this is not a do or die effort.
> 
> I'm not at that machine right now so I can't check what I have in
> package.use for "icu". You seem to have inconsistencies with USE="icu",
> perhaps gst-plugins-base wants it off and chromium wants it on.
> 
> You might need icu in USE globally.

USE=icu should not be needed globally.  This is how it works here:

$ grep icu -r /etc/portage
/etc/portage/package.use/sys:>=dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.2 icu abi_x86_32
/etc/portage/package.use/clients:www-client/firefox system-cairo system-icu 
system-jpeg system-libvpx system-sqlite
/etc/portage/package.use/xorg:>=dev-libs/icu-54.1-r1 abi_x86_32
/etc/portage/package.use/media:>=media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.41 abi_x86_32 icu
/etc/portage/package.use/Qt:dev-qt/qtwebkit icu


$ eix -l dev-libs/libxml2
[I] dev-libs/libxml2
     Available versions:  
     (2)
            2.9.2-r4	[debug examples icu ipv6 lzma python readline static-
libs test ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 
64 x32" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 python3_5"]
            2.9.3	[debug examples icu ipv6 lzma python readline static-libs 
test ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 
x32" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 python3_5"]
     Installed versions:  2.9.3(2)(08:29:48 02/22/16)(icu ipv6 python readline 
-debug -examples -lzma -static-libs -test ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" 
ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32" 
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4 -python3_3 -python3_5")
     Homepage:            http://www.xmlsoft.org/
     Description:         Version 2 of the library to manipulate XML files


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Regards,
Mick