Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 07:58:17
Message-Id: 201005020957.08649.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] weird portage warning by Petric Frank
1 On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Petric Frank wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Am Sonntag 02 Mai 2010 08:56:29 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
5 > > On Sonntag 02 Mai 2010, Philip Webb wrote:
6 > > > For the past few weeks, I have noticed the following bizarre msg :
7 > > > root:503 ~> emerge -Dup world
8 > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
9 > > > Calculating dependencies |
10 > > > * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated qt3.eclass
11 > > > * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated qt3.eclass
12 > > > * Please fix your ebuild to not inherit the deprecated qt3.eclass
13 > > > ... done!
14 > > >
15 > > > Yes, I have the KDE 3 overlay installed,
16 > > > but even so how can a mere user be expected to "fix an ebuild",
17 > > > whatever that may mean anyway. Can anyone enlighten me
18 > > > as to the cause &/or purpose of these repeated msgs ?
19 > >
20 > > the cause: the qt3.eclass is deprecated (because qt3 and everything
21 > >
22 > > depending on it is 'dead'). The ebuilds use this eclass, portage warns
23 > > about it. There is nothing you can do about it.
24 >
25 > But there should a note *which* ebuild have to be fixed, right ?
26 >
27 > regards
28
29 that warning is not meant for you - the user - but devs. You don't fix the
30 ebuild. Just ignore the warning. And if you are curios - grep is your friend.