Re: [gentoo-user] Gpgme oddity

[Marc Joliet]

On Saturday 04 March 2017 10:52:57 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 04 Mar 2017 09:45:28 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Greetings.
> >
> > This is a KDE ~amd64 box, which still depends on kde-apps/kdepimlibs:4 for
> > many things. I've been running happily on =app-crypt/gpgme-1.5.5, but
> > today
> > portage wants to upgrade to =app-crypt/gpgme-1.8.0-r2. But that version
> > can't be installed while kdepimlibs:4 is still around, as I see from the
> > ebuild:
> >
> > [...]
> > RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND}
> >
> >         cxx? (
> >
> >                 !kde-apps/gpgmepp
> >                 !kde-apps/kdepimlibs:4
> >
> >         )"
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Is it even possible to satisfy that condition?
>
> I saw Peter's post just as I hit sent on mine.  :-)
>
> Apparently USE="-cxx -qt5" should allow gpgme to build.  kdepimlibs goes
> away on KDE-5 and the packages affected are in flux at this point.  I will
> rinse and repeat at a later date.

True, but then you'll probably hit bug #600510.  I did and ended up going the 
mask route for now. (I may actually attempt to upgrade to KDE PIM 16.12.2, but 
that pulls in a long tail of other packages due to QT_MINIMAL="5.7.0".)

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