On 30/03/15 03:43, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sunday 29 Mar 2015 17:08:32 Yanestra wrote: >>> On 03/29/2015 05:03 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: >>>> "In most of the cases, Portage will be able to deliver correct >>>> suggestions for that when using the --autounmask feature. >>> >>> The first thing what happens here is that kde wants to upgrade >>> because qtchooser's mask miraculously becomes ignored. And >>> qtchooser itself doesn't install together with the libraries it >>> pretends to control because there masses of conflicts, no matter >>> what combination (qt4, qt5) I try. >>> >>> It has taken months of experimentation to get all the software to >>> work which I need. It was tricky, because in many places only >>> particular versions do. >>> >>> All that dissolves in a giant pile of rubbish... >>> >>> Regards, >>> Yanestra >> >> I've also ended up with qt blockers, that I do not seem capable to >> overcome yet. KDE wants qt 4.8.5 installed which is blocking qt >> 4.8.6. How did you go about overcoming this? >> > > I also have dev-qt/qtcore-4.8.5-r2 and some other qt packages installed > but I had no problems with that. > > I'm on gentoo stable (not ~amd64) and I don't use KDE.
If you're on stable, you'll need to keyword qt-4.8.6 in its entirety. You can't mix and match versions, and 4.8.6 is the only one that supports multilib.
