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.<br><br>I'm gonna miss the sledgehammer though...<br> <br>Seroiusly, thanks very much for your help<br><br>PD: As soon as i get it done i will tell how the outcome was<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/10/29 Alan McKinnon <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alan.mckinnon@gmail.com">alan.mckinnon@gmail.com</a>></span><br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">On Wednesday 29 October 2008 18:41:47 Andrey Vul wrote:<br> > > [blocks B ] <sys-fs/udev-114 ("<sys-fs/udev-114" is blocking<br> > > media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.19-r2, media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.2)<br> > ><br> > > My usual solution for problems of this kind is to mercilessly unmerge any<br> > > packages that stand in my way, but, considering we are talking about<br> > > packages like qt and udev, i must admit i do not dare to follow my usual<br> > > strategy.<br> <br> </div>Instead of unmerging stuff without mercy, taking a sledgehammer to the problem<br> and generally acting like a Windows user, I recommend you read the output and<br> understand what is going on.<br> <br> It clearly says that your *current* version of udev which is less than 114 is<br> blocking sane-backends and libgphoto. So, merge udev separately:<br> <br> emerge -av1 udev<br> <br> there's no need for udev to go in world, it's already in system. Then emerge<br> world and it will probably work (after you deal with qt that is, but another<br> poster told you how to do that)<br> <font color="#888888"><br> --<br> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com<br> <br> </font></blockquote></div><br>