To follow up, after removing &quot;qt&quot; (by mistake), and all the qt-* packages I could find, this is what I found when running &quot;emerge -uDav world&quot;&quot;<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">x11-libs/qt-gui:4<br>

<br>  (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r1&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;) conflicts with<br>    ~x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2[-debug] required by (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;)<br>

<br>x11-libs/qt-sql:4<br><br>  (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.3&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;) conflicts with<br>    &gt;=x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.0:4[mysql] required by (&#39;installed&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1&#39;, &#39;nomerge&#39;)<br>

<br>x11-libs/qt-core:4<br><br>  (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.3-r1&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;) conflicts with<br>    ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[qt3support,-debug] required by (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;)<br>

<br>x11-libs/qt-dbus:4<br><br>  (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.3&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;) conflicts with<br>    ~x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2[-debug] required by (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;)<br>

<br>media-libs/x264:0<br><br>  (&#39;ebuild&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;media-libs/x264-0.0.20090923&#39;, &#39;merge&#39;) conflicts with<br>    &lt;media-libs/x264-0.0.20090908 required by (&#39;installed&#39;, &#39;/&#39;, &#39;media-video/avidemux-2.5.1-r2&#39;, &#39;nomerge&#39;)<br>

<br><br>!!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies<br>!!! triggered by backtracking:<br><br>x11-libs/qt-assistant:4<br>x11-libs/qt-test:4<br>x11-libs/qt-svg:4<br>x11-libs/qt-script:4<br>

x11-libs/qt-webkit:4<br>x11-libs/qt-opengl:4<br></div><br>Not sure where to go with this.<br><br>When I ran &quot;emerge world&quot; the re-installation of more than 250 packages was begun.  <br><br>Alan <br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Alan E. Davis <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:lngndvs@gmail.com">lngndvs@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Thank you Mr. MacKinnon:<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Alan McKinnon <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com" target="_blank">alan.mckinnon@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> <br>

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</div></div>Did you try the most straightforward (albeit lengthy) approach:<br>
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unmerge all of Qt<br>
emerge world and let portage figure out what it wants to put back<br>
<br></blockquote></div><div><br>How can I do this?  <br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There is seldom a good reason to have Qt packages in world (dev packages<br>
excepted) and recent changes in the ebuild have caused lots of mutual<br>
blockers. When I first went through this, I saw that almost all qt-* packages<br>
would be rebuilt on my machines. It seemed easier to restart with a clean<br>
slate. I got a blocker notice which said I had to enable various flags, which<br>
I did and the merge completed flawlessly.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div><div><br>I will try to uninstall all &quot;qt-*&quot;  packages.   I&#39;d like to uninstall KDE4 also.<br><br>Alan Davis<br></div> <br></div>
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