Re: [gentoo-amd64] kdelibs insanity

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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.