Re: [gentoo-user] KDE update puzzle

[Marco Rebhan]

On Saturday, 18 September 2021 17.19.45 CEST Philip Webb wrote:
> Here is the whole command + output in gruesome detail :
>
> root:522 ~> !498
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_9" emerge -pv --backtrack=30 attica
> frameworkintegration kactivities kactivities-stats kcmutils kconfig
> kcoreaddons kcrash kdesu kdnssd kglobalaccel kholidays khtml
> kidletime kimageformats knotifyconfig kpeople kross krunner
> ktexteditor kwayland kwindowsystem qqc2-desktop-style

Is this the command you ran to get this output? I assume the same 
happens with emerge -auDU @world, but did you try emerge -ac first? 
Maybe something is still installed but deselected which I believe causes 
it to not get rebuilt and potentially block other packages. All of these 
packages that claim to pull in the older versions seem to themselves be 
scheduled for update, that's why I'm thinking somewhere there is one 
package that isn't that's causing all this mess.

> It mb that I have to remove the whole of the present versions
> in order to (re-)install the new ones ; it usually happens with Qt.
> I've never understood why Portage can't handle that itself.

That's what I would suggest if what I wrote above doesn't work. I 
haven't ever encountered this issue myself yet though despite 
extensively using KDE packages, so I'm not sure what's going wrong here.

-Marco