On Saturday 01 April 2006 01:52, Lord Sauron wrote: > Hi, I'm having a bit more trouble. > > I'm trying to re-compile KDE so that maybe some functionality which > didn't compile right the first time will work. However, it says I've > got some broken dependencies. > > localhost ~ # emerge --pretend kde > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kbounce-3.4* (is blocking > kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3) [blocks B ] =kde-base/libkdegames-3.4* (is [SNIP]
> I don't know what to do. I don't want to loose Quanta+ or > KLaptopDaemon, and I frankly didn't know Kommander was there... > > Please help a old Debian person who isn't used to doing this stuff by > himself... Oh, I already tried emerge --depclean, but that didn't fix > all the problems apparently. In the mean time I'll try remerging > KLaptopDaemon, but I would like to resolve these issues to both learn > how and to make life easier in the future. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml#doc_chap2 You are trying to install the monolithic packages while what you have installed are the split packages. I would recommend that you stick with the split packages and emerge kde-meta instead of kde. That way you will have the option to uninstall packages that you don't use later on without having to remerge anything. -- Bo Andresen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
