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

[Laurence Perkins <lperkins@openeye.net>]

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> 231011 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Today a sync and emerge world produces a huge list of blockers.
> > qt 5.15.10 is currently installed and qt 5.15.11 is new in the tree 
> > and being blocked.
> > All the visible blockers are Qt itself so --verbose-conflicts is needed.
> 
> My experience for some time has been that Qt pkgs block one another, st the only way out is to unmerge them all, then remerge them all.
> If anyone knows a better method, please let us know
> 
If you don't want to do that, then adding all the currently installed qt packages to the merge list explicitly works as well.  If you're good with eix's search and output settings it can be done without too much agony.

LMP