Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild

However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what
is pulling that in.  I certainly do not have arts.

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > Hi.  When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an
> > upgrade, I just get the following:
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/arts:3.5".
> >
> > I tried a -t, but it didn't give me anything.  How can I tell what is
> > happening here?
>
> This has been well documented and well discussed here there and everywhere.
>
> Gentoo has dropped all kde-3.5 packages from portage. They are now in the kde-
> sunset overlay, you need layman to access them. That error proves you do not
> have the overlay enabled.
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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