I have read a number of different explanations and suggestions, some of them regarding an earlier, yet similar, tanglement between versions of qt-*. I've tried a number of suggestions, and I have unmerged and remerged packages.
I am now trying to individually merge packages with dependencies on qt-*-4.5.2.
I tried KDE 4.3.1, with some trepidation, and I have happily been running gnome, save a couple of nits, and I have run into qt issues in the past. I would like to uninstall kde4 (like it, but not well enough to devote so many resources to it, and to have to upgrade frequently and painfully). I would like to remove the KDE 4 installation, but keep the individual packages depending on kdelibs. (K3b, etc.). Would this have an impact on this issue? This is off topic, but how to uninstall EXCEPT what I want, of KDE4? Is this reasonable?
Thanks. I hope to solve this soon, but it's too early to know whether the help on this list was enough. I changed USE flags, and the same messages appear:
!!! One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:
x11-libs/qt-gui:4
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts with
~x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2[-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1', 'merge')
x11-libs/qt-sql:4
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.3', 'merge') conflicts with
>=x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.0:4[mysql] required by ('installed', '/', 'app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1', 'nomerge')
x11-libs/qt-core:4
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts with
~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[qt3support,-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2', 'merge')
x11-libs/qt-dbus:4
('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.3', 'merge') conflicts with
~x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2[-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2', 'merge')
!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies
!!! triggered by backtracking:
x11-libs/qt-assistant:4
x11-libs/qt-svg:4
x11-libs/qt-test:4
x11-libs/qt-script:4
x11-libs/qt-webkit:4
x11-libs/qt-opengl:4
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
Thank you,
Alan