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On 07/10/2009 03:44 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm upgrading Gentoo nearly each day for 2 years now.
> But once in a while I'm lost, like this time
>
> emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world
> gives a lot of blockings which I don't quite understand (and there are
> so many) - see below.

Yes, there is something strange about the qt packages that triggers
this problem.  It looks horrible but the solution is just to remove
all of the qt packages manually before doing your update.  Dunno why.