Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and PyQt4 blocking

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> emerge --update
>> --newuse --deep @system @world
>>     
>
> Did you do that command? AFAIK depclean should only be done after
> world has been fully updated.
>
> I don't know what profile/arch you're running... On my system it was
> recently upgraded to Qt-4.5, so if that's the case for you then I'd
> unmerge the Qt-4.4 stuff entirely and then update world and see what
> it tries to bring in.
>
>
>   

World the way it is set up includes system.  I don't use the sets
feature as of yet.  So world includes system as long as you leave off
the @ thingy.

I posted this on the forums after a day or so.  A developer posted the
fix.  Here it is quoted from
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5524910.html?sid=5a3c9d2154aae9b9c83e8215933a8df7#5524910 
:

> What is probably happening here is that PyQt4 is linking qt-assistant
> and qt-xmlpatterns, if these packages are installed. But they are not
> listed as dependencies in the ebuild. So you can either (1) leave
> things as installed now, or (2) unmerge qt-assistant and
> qt-xmlpatterns, and then rebuild PyQt4.
>
> That those packages are not listed in the PyQt4 ebuild as optional
> dependencies is a bug that needs to be fixed tho.

Unmerging those then rebuilding PyQt4 worked and it comes back clean. 
Finer than frog hair now.  ;-) 

Dale

:-)  :-)