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

["Andrey Vul" <andrey.vul@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro <borafael@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
It'll be faster do do udev first. Get it done and over with.
Qt will take 2+ hours to compile.

> I'm gonna miss the sledgehammer though...
I sledgehammer my way through blocks and no problems here :D
> 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
I prefer emerge -1pv udev
<look at output>
emerge -1 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)


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