Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world updates blocked by Qt

[Michael Cook <mackal.cook@gmail.com>]

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On 10/12/23 06:56, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>     On 11/10/2023 21:14, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>     > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook <mackal.cook@gmail.com
>     > <mailto:mackal.cook@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     >     I just --backtrack=100 and walked away, seemed to have figured
>     >     something out for my system and updated normally.
>     >
>     > This is the one that solved it. Been away too long, forgot all
>     about
>     > backtrack
>
>     I've had this in my make.conf for many years now:
>
>        EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--backtrack=200"
>
>     Never hit the issue you described (KDE desktop, thus Qt is always
>     a dep.)
>
>
> Added similar here now. I see the default is 10, obviously that is not 
> enough when a big Qt drop hits.
>
> I have something like 30 Qt-5 packages! When did it get so big? I 
> recall building Qt4 and it was about 6 or so.
> Perhaps the devs split it up into many smaller packages.
>
> Alan
>
> -- 
> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

I built this computer in 2018, been using KDE for my desktop and it's 
always been on ~amd64. I've had to increase backtrack like twice to 
resolve some Qt upgrades, not worth upping the default, would not save time.

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