[gentoo-amd64] kdelibs insanity

[Mark Haney]

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 kdelibs
>
> 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.

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Mark Haney
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