The dependency graph that seems to be murdering me right now seems to be:
kde -> wayland -> gles2 -> egl -> ##################### .............................. [ebuild N ] kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.5.5:5::gentoo USE="display-manager gtk pam pulseaudio sddm sdk wallpapers -bluetooth -mediacenter -networkmanager" 0 KiB [ebuild NS ] kde-apps/kde-meta-15.08.3:5::gentoo [4.14.3-r1:4::gentoo] 0 KiB [uninstall ] kde-apps/kde-meta-4.14.3-r1:4::gentoo USE="nls sdk -accessibility (-aqua) -kdepim -minimal" [blocks b ] kde-apps/kde-meta:4 ("kde-apps/kde-meta:4" is blocking kde-apps/kde-meta-15.08.3) [ebuild U ] dev-lang/mono-4.2.2.30::gentoo [4.2.2.10-r1::gentoo] USE="nls (-doc) -minimal -pax_kernel -xen" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] dev-dotnet/nuget-2.8.3::gentoo 0 KiB [ebuild U ] dev-dotnet/libgdiplus-4.2-r2::gentoo [4.2-r1::gentoo] USE="cairo" 0 KiB [ebuild U ] dev-util/monodevelop-5.9.5.9-r1::gentoo [3.0.2-r1::gentoo] USE="git gnome%* subversion -qtcurve%" 0 KiB Total: 119 packages (21 upgrades, 32 new, 54 in new slots, 12 reinstalls, 80 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 395,848 KiB Conflict: 80 blocks WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-qt/qtgui:5 (dev-qt/qtgui-5.5.1-r1:5/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with ~dev-qt/qtgui-5.5.1[-egl] required by (dev-qt/qtmultimedia-5.5.1-r2:5/5::gentoo, installed) ^^^^ tortoise ~ # ##################### Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> Why ask the same question again when you got an answer last time? >> >> Hint: look at the output for asciidoc. >> -- >> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > I have to add this. From what I understand about the scripts he is > using, he is blindly letting emerge do updates without checking to see > if the updates fall into line with what he *needs*. If I read it > correctly, any USE flag change will be missed until it hits the fan and > is broken. That would then mean taking a lot of time to go back through > logs and figuring out just when it went wrong and most importantly, what > caused it and how to fix it. Since the change could have happened > several updates ago, that could involve some work and a lot of rebuilding. > > Doing the sync in a script and even getting a email or something with > the -p output is fine but updating blindly is not a good idea. > > At this point, I think I understand why he is having so much trouble. > At the very least, check to see what USE flags are changing before doing > updates. There are other things that are important but that is one that > changes a good bit. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > -- IQ is a measure of how stupid you feel. Powers are not rights.