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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:52:39
Message-Id: 201001202150.18653.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an
3 > upgrade, I just get the following:
4 >
5 > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
6 >
7 > Calculating dependencies... done!
8 >
9 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/arts:3.5".
10 >
11 > I tried a -t, but it didn't give me anything. How can I tell what is
12 > happening here?
13
14 This has been well documented and well discussed here there and everywhere.
15
16 Gentoo has dropped all kde-3.5 packages from portage. They are now in the kde-
17 sunset overlay, you need layman to access them. That error proves you do not
18 have the overlay enabled.
19
20 --
21 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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