Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

["Rafael Barrera Oro" <borafael@gmail.com>]

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Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and then
emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric
running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging.

I'm gonna miss the sledgehammer though...

Seroiusly, thanks very much for your help

PD: As soon as i get it done i will tell how the outcome was

2008/10/29 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>

> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 18:41:47 Andrey Vul wrote:
> > > [blocks B     ] <sys-fs/udev-114 ("<sys-fs/udev-114" is blocking
> > > media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.19-r2, media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.2)
> > >
> > > My usual solution for problems of this kind is to mercilessly unmerge
> any
> > > packages that stand in my way, but, considering we are talking about
> > > packages like qt and udev, i must admit i do not dare to follow my
> usual
> > > strategy.
>
> Instead of unmerging stuff without mercy, taking a sledgehammer to the
> problem
> and generally acting like a Windows user, I recommend you read the output
> and
> understand what is going on.
>
> It clearly says that your *current* version of udev which is less than 114
> is
> blocking sane-backends and libgphoto. So, merge udev separately:
>
> emerge -av1 udev
>
> there's no need for udev to go in world, it's already in system. Then
> emerge
> world and it will probably work (after you deal with qt that is, but
> another
> poster told you how to do that)
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>

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