Re: [gentoo-user] Clashing dependencies in KDE

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday 11 December 2014 12:18:28 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> if [I were] in your place I'd try [running] emerge @world -uvDNta (the
> most important one here is the -t for showing the dependency tree, you
> could also play with --backtrack=30 to resolve possible issues with the
> dependency calculation), after you removed the keyword stuff you just
> added.

I thought someone would say that. The -t, I mean. Of course I did try it, 
but I already knew it wouldn't help because portage can't complete the 
dependency calculation.

> From your fist statement (required by >=kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.14:4) I
> guess that you keyworded something that depends on kdepimlibs or
> kdepimlibs itself in the past.

$ cat /etc/portage/package.keywords
sci-misc/boinc
~sci-calculators/qalculate-units-0.9.4
sys-apps/portage

[...]

> As a final straw (or first option - depending on you preferences) you
> could resync the tree: maybe you've gotten an incomplete version/revbump
> that already is resolved in later versions of the tree.

That did it - thanks. I see we have a new version of KDE today, and the 
changes to the tree had only been partly completed. I should have thought of 
that myself.

Now to shut KDE down and upgrade it...

-- 
Rgds
Peter.

PS. Am I right in thinking that two verb constructs in everyday English are 
absent from German? I have the pluperfect tense and the subjunctive mood in 
mind. We also don't have a rule that every verb in a sentence must be in the 
same tense - in fact it's rarely so.

Just a passing observation; no offence meant.