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From: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:11:58
Message-Id: 7bef1f890910250611j7894fda6m41c592444bbe1665@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update by Alan McKinnon
1 Thank you Mr. MacKinnon:
2
3 On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
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5 >
6 >
7 > Did you try the most straightforward (albeit lengthy) approach:
8 >
9 > unmerge all of Qt
10 > emerge world and let portage figure out what it wants to put back
11 >
12 >
13 How can I do this?
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16 > There is seldom a good reason to have Qt packages in world (dev packages
17 > excepted) and recent changes in the ebuild have caused lots of mutual
18 > blockers. When I first went through this, I saw that almost all qt-*
19 > packages
20 > would be rebuilt on my machines. It seemed easier to restart with a clean
21 > slate. I got a blocker notice which said I had to enable various flags,
22 > which
23 > I did and the merge completed flawlessly.
24 >
25 >
26 I will try to uninstall all "qt-*" packages. I'd like to uninstall KDE4
27 also.
28
29 Alan Davis

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Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Uncle: qt-*:4 dependencies/blocks preventing world update "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@×××××.com>