On 10/12/23 06:56, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2023 at 12:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras > wrote: > > On 11/10/2023 21:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 4:49 PM Michael Cook > > 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.