Apparently, though unproven, at 19:38 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did
opine thusly:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Portage can deal with a pure kde-4.5.x to 4.6.0 upgrade, the blockers are
> > all soft ones so they just get automagically dealt with.
> >
> > But kbluetooth has this gem:
> >
> > COMMON_DEPEND="
> >
> > <kde-base/kdelibs-4.6[semantic-desktop?]
> > <kde-base/libkworkspace-4.6
> > <kde-base/solid-4.6[bluetooth]
> >
> > "
> >
> > Oops. Blocks kdelibs. Basically nothing can proceed but portage doesn't
> > know that so it dumps about 300 lines of errors on-screen. And the poor
> > user has to sift through all of that to find the root cause. It's there,
> > just hidden right in the middle of all the other junk on screen
>
> Do you have k3b installed? I tried to install it here, it was a blocker
> earlier so I -C'd it, and it appears k3b wants a older version of qt
> stuff and KDE 4.6 wants the new versions of qt stuff. I have not been
> able to work around this yet but would love to know if it is doable yet.
Of course it can be done :-)
Output trimmed for brevity.
$ eix kdebase-meta
[I] kde-base/kdebase-meta
Available versions:
(4.4) 4.4.5
(4.5) (~)4.5.5
(4.6) {M}(~)4.6.0
{aqua kdeprefix}
Installed versions: 4.6.0(4.6)(04:58:02 28/01/11)(-aqua -kdeprefix)
Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
Description: Merge this to pull in all kdebase-derived packages
$ eix k3b
[I] app-cdr/k3b
Available versions: (4) 2.0.1-r1 (~)2.0.2-r1
Installed versions: 2.0.2-r1(4)(18:11:41 27/01/11)(dvd encode ffmpeg
flac lame mad musepack musicbrainz vcd vorbis wav -aqua -debug -emovix -hal
-kdeenablefinal -sndfile -sox -taglib)
Homepage: http://www.k3b.org/
Description: The CD/DVD Kreator for KDE
"qt" doesn't show up in the k3b ebuild anywhere so your blocker is probably
from one of the deps. It inherits the same eclass as KDE so it's not that. I
remeber having to unmerge k3b and merge it later, but that seemed to be a hal
thing.
What does emerge -t show?
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
