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