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On Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:09:42 Michael P. Soulier wrote: |
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> I'm just curious about this block I noticed... |
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> [uninstall ] x11-libs/qt-4.3.3 |
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> [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-core ("x11-libs/qt-core" is blocking |
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> x11-libs/qt-4.3.3) |
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> [blocks b ] <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 ("<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4" |
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> is blocking x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.2, |
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> x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2) |
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> So, presumably qt-core was renamed to just qt, so that's why I'm being told |
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> to unmerge qt-core and merge qt? |
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> I'm just curious about what causes this. I'm getting there slowly... |
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No, it's a monolithic to split-ebuild switch |
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Remember when kde added kde*meta packages in addition to just kde*? |
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qt did the same thing and the old large qt was replaced by several smaller qt- |
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* packages. |
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You have to unmerge qt and merge qt-*. They cannot co-exist as every file in |
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qt-core collides with qt |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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