The output of:

sudo emerge -auDv --changed-use --keep-going --with-bdeps=y
--changed-deps --backtrack=100 @world

is attached.


On 05/20/20 21:24, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 5/20/20 12:06 PM, n952162 wrote:
>> The command was:
>>
>> emerge -vu dev-qt/qtgui dev-qt/qtx11extras dev-qt/qtopengl
>> dev-qt/qtprintsupport dev-qt/qtwidgets dev-qt/qtxml
>> dev-qt/linguist-tools dev-qt/qtnetwork dev-qt/qtsvg dev-qt/qtcore
>>
>> The output to that is attached.
>>
>> I tried just emerging zlib with the static-libs USE flag ... that log is
>> also attached.
>>
>> On 05/20/20 18:59, Ashley Dixon wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:35:52PM +0200, n952162 wrote:
>>>> I have a slot conflict for sys-libs/zlib, whereby both users want
>>>> the same package.  Studying the USE variables shows that the new
>>>> package wants, additionally, the "static-libs" USE flag.
>>>>
>>>> I thought, the way to handle this is to add the static-libs USE
>>>> variable in /etc/portage/package.use and re-emerge with
>>>> --changed-use.  Unfortunately, that gives me the same conflict.
>>> Can you attach the full output of emerge ?
>>>
>>
>
> This is most likely due to so many packages that need to be upgraded
> at the same time. You're only asking to update a few select packages
> and it's borking because it's finding packages outside your request
> that also need to be updated at the same time.
>
> Have you tried an `emerge -avuD world` to see if portage can backtrack
> far enough to sort dependencies out?
>
> Dan
>