Please don't toppost On 20 May 2020 21:46:45 CEST, n952162 <n952...@web.de> wrote: >Good tip ... I was getting unconfortable that every time I tried one of >these attempts to update things, it would say that the target got added >to the world file. You're saying, if I don't recognize it, I can >remove >it from the list? > > >On 05/20/20 21:35, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> On 20 May 2020 21:24:36 CEST, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 5/20/20 12:06 PM, n952162 wrote: >>>> The command was: >>>> >>>> emerge -vu dev-qt/qtgui dev-qt/qtx11extras dev-qt/qtopengl >>>> dev-qt/qtprintsupport dev-qt/qtwidgets dev-qt/qtxml >>>> dev-qt/linguist-tools dev-qt/qtnetwork dev-qt/qtsvg dev-qt/qtcore >>>> >>>> The output to that is attached. >>>> >>>> I tried just emerging zlib with the static-libs USE flag ... that >log >>> is >>>> also attached. >>>> >>>> On 05/20/20 18:59, Ashley Dixon wrote: >>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 02:35:52PM +0200, n952162 wrote: >>>>>> I have a slot conflict for sys-libs/zlib, whereby both users want >>>>>> the same package. Studying the USE variables shows that the new >>>>>> package wants, additionally, the "static-libs" USE flag. >>>>>> >>>>>> I thought, the way to handle this is to add the static-libs USE >>>>>> variable in /etc/portage/package.use and re-emerge with >>>>>> --changed-use. Unfortunately, that gives me the same conflict. >>>>> Can you attach the full output of emerge ? >>>>> >>> This is most likely due to so many packages that need to be upgraded >at >>> >>> the same time. You're only asking to update a few select packages >and >>> it's borking because it's finding packages outside your request that >>> also need to be updated at the same time. >>> >>> Have you tried an `emerge -avuD world` to see if portage can >backtrack >>> far enough to sort dependencies out? >>> >>> Dan >> I would also suggest a cleanup of the world-file as that command will >add all that to the world file as well. Making updates where libraries >are replaced impossible to negotiate by portage. >> >> The file can be found at: >> /var/lib/portage/world >> >> Generally, only used applications, services and desktop environment >packages should be listed. >> Libraries should only be in there if needed for own projects. >> >> -- >> Joost
Yes, if you don't need it, remove it from the world file. Just double check the list of to be removed packages when running "emerge --depclean" once the updates have finished. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
