On 7/30/09, Volker Armin Hemmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On Donnerstag 30 Juli 2009, Mark Haney wrote: >> I'm beginning to wonder if Gentoo is right for me any more. I swear, >> the dependencies and USE flag changes are killing me. Here's my latest >> fun: >> >> I'm trying to upgrade kdelibs (to 4.2.4-r4) and I get this: >> > octavian ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -uav kdelib >> > >> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: >> > >> > Calculating dependencies... done! >> > >> > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy >> > "~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[-debug,-qt3support]". !!! One of the following >> > packages is required to complete your request: - x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 >> > (Change USE: -qt3support) >> > (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2" [ebuild]) >> > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.4-r4" [ebuild]) >> > (dependency required by "kdelibs" [argument]) >> >> So, based on that I need to change my USE flag for qt-core-4.5.2 to >> [-qt3support], okay. I go into /etc/portage/package.use/monolithic to >> this: >> >> x11-libs/qt-core -qt3support (actually I just comment out the line, but >> in effect I'm removing qt3support from qt-core). >> >> When I do so and I re-run the update I get this: >> > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy >> > "~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[glib,qt3support,-debug]". !!! One of the >> > following packages is required to complete your request: - >> > x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (Change USE: +qt3support) >> > (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2" [ebuild]) >> > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.4-r4" [ebuild]) >> > (dependency required by "kdelibs" [argument]) >> >> So, which is it? It can't be both ways, and to be honest, trying to >> figure out which file needs which USE flag on what day is getting kinda >> silly. > > try syncing again. And masking qt3support fro qt-core is not enough. Either > enable it globally or disable it globally - or add all your qt packages to > package.use.
I don't think there is a need to sync. qt-core, qt-gui,qt-sql, and qt-opengl just must all have either qt3support on or off, mixing them with different USE flag settings won't work. Also, kde4-base.eclass seems to require qt3support on, so there isn't much choice about configuration here ... OP just hasn't gotten the whole mile, yet. But you are right: OP should just enable qt3support in /etc/make.conf -- or arduously list out at least the four qt-* packages with qt3support enabled under his choice of files/dirs under /etc/portage if he is a micromanagement-masochist. About his pondering on whether Gentoo is right for him and about Gentoo having been more and more work to maintain recently -- I wholeheartedly agree. I just haven't found anything better, yet. -- Arttu V.
