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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to mask or remove new ebuild
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 01:05:21
Message-Id: CAGfcS_mZRVmX0gbuXhY0AAvXpMHtzxa_9wyxi+viLMRneTpoZQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to mask or remove new ebuild by Raphael MD
1 On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Raphael MD <raphaxx@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > KDE Appear to be a nightmare, because every 'emerge --sync' I do to solve
4 > other problems, if KDE base has an updated version issued, and you,
5 > acidentaly, need to install any other KDE packages that you don't have
6 > installed yet, you suffer with a lot of dependency updates problems.
7 >
8 > De fato, you need to update whole KDE base.
9
10 As long as you aren't trying to mix keywords you should generally end
11 up with compatible versions without a lot of hassle. Now, if you want
12 to install some random ~arch kde packages on an otherwise-stable
13 system then you might run into problems.
14
15 >
16 > Now I need to install Kdevelop-5.1.0, and emerge are asking to install kde's
17 > dependencies' version 5.7.1. My installed versions are 5.6.2. But emerge
18 > even it I masked those packages, refuse to install.
19
20 It sounds like you're running into a qt update issue (I assume you're
21 talking about qt here - your description isn't very specific).
22
23 If so, I suspect this will help you:
24 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Qt/FAQ#Solving_the_block
25
26 I'd have to dig up the reason behind this - there was an issue that
27 prevented portage from being able to figure out how to resolve this
28 one on its own.
29
30 You probably should have run into this a while ago when running a
31 regular emerge -uD world.
32
33 --
34 Rich

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to mask or remove new ebuild Raphael MD <raphaxx@×××××.com>