On Thursday 23 October 2008 11:28:49 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday 22 October 2008 19:32:08 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > Please post again the output from emerge -pvutND world but attach it in > > a file so it doesn't get crippled by the mail program. > > Attached.
Finally, we can see what you are running into. This is a stable box and you are trying to install latest kde:4 onto it right? emerge is trying to install qt-4.3.3 which is marked stable and conflicts with what kde-4.1.2 wants generate an autounmask for qt > > > Also what I have seen from your previous tree output is that you are > > trying to do many things at one time. Upgrading to kde4 changing and > > changing many use flags. This makes debugging very hard. Try to do only > > one thing at a time > > That's only because one thing leads to another. All I wanted to do was to > install KDE-4; everything else I've tried has been to enable that. Of > course I do try to do only one thing at a time - I had half a lifetime of > debugging of one kind or another. > > I started by running autounmask, as suggested by Neil B; that unmasked 81 > packages. Then I tried to update world - 82 times: one for each other > package that needed unmasking. At the end of that I had all the packages > unmasked that were required for an upgrade to KDE-4, but I also had the > blocker that started this conversation. I've been trying to find the > conflict in dependencies ever since, with your help - thanks again. > > Here's another titbit: > > $ equery d '<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4' > [ Searching for packages depending on <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4... ] > app-text/poppler-bindings-0.8.7 (qt4? >=x11-libs/qt-4.3:4) > x11-libs/qscintilla-2.1-r1 (qt4? =x11-libs/qt-4.3*:4) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
