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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib"
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:27:47
Message-Id: mf9cm1$emv$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] This nite's switch to "full multilib" by wabenbau@gmail.com
1 On 30/03/15 03:43, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
2 > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sunday 29 Mar 2015 17:08:32 Yanestra wrote:
5 >>> On 03/29/2015 05:03 PM, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
6 >>>> "In most of the cases, Portage will be able to deliver correct
7 >>>> suggestions for that when using the --autounmask feature.
8 >>>
9 >>> The first thing what happens here is that kde wants to upgrade
10 >>> because qtchooser's mask miraculously becomes ignored. And
11 >>> qtchooser itself doesn't install together with the libraries it
12 >>> pretends to control because there masses of conflicts, no matter
13 >>> what combination (qt4, qt5) I try.
14 >>>
15 >>> It has taken months of experimentation to get all the software to
16 >>> work which I need. It was tricky, because in many places only
17 >>> particular versions do.
18 >>>
19 >>> All that dissolves in a giant pile of rubbish...
20 >>>
21 >>> Regards,
22 >>> Yanestra
23 >>
24 >> I've also ended up with qt blockers, that I do not seem capable to
25 >> overcome yet. KDE wants qt 4.8.5 installed which is blocking qt
26 >> 4.8.6. How did you go about overcoming this?
27 >>
28 >
29 > I also have dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.5-r2 and some other qt packages installed
30 > but I had no problems with that.
31 >
32 > I'm on gentoo stable (not ~amd64) and I don't use KDE.
33
34 If you're on stable, you'll need to keyword qt-4.8.6 in its entirety.
35 You can't mix and match versions, and 4.8.6 is the only one that
36 supports multilib.

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib" Yanestra <wysiwyg@×××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: This nite's switch to "full multilib" Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>