Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Dependencies

[Manuel McLure]

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 blocking kde-base/kdegames-3.4.3)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-arts-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/libkcddb-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.4.3)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/klaptopdaemon-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdeutils-3.4.3-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kommander-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kxsldbg-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kfilereplace-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/klinkstatus-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kimagemapeditor-3.4* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/quanta-3.4* (is blocking kde-base/kdewebdev-3.4.3-r1)

It looks like you installed KDE originally using the split ebuilds - 
i.e. kde-meta instead of kde. Try

emerge --pretend kde-meta

and see if that doesn't give blocking messages. I expect it won't.


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