Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, KH <gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de> wrote: > >> Mark Knecht schrieb: >> >>> Hi, >>> I'm not used to seeing all the additional messages below the >>> blockage indication. Can someone possibly help me understand how to >>> read this? >>> >>> Are there really application packages that cannot be installed at >>> the same or is only about qt and possibly the USE flags I've got? >>> >>> I tried removing qjackctl (the only world package I spotted in the >>> list) but that didn't help. >>> >>> What to try next? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mark >>> >> [snip] >> >>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked >>> >>> >> [snip] >> >> >> This link was great help for me. Told me everything and how to read the >> blocker. So I did: >> >> #emerge -avC qt-4.3.3 >> #emerge -DuavN world (This installed qt-4.4.2) >> >> But now I do have a problem. When I run >> >> #emerge --depclean -av >> >> I receive the following output: >> [snip] >> >>>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: >>>>> >> dev-db/sqlite >> selected: 2.8.16-r4 >> protected: none >> omitted: 3.6.6.2 >> >> x11-libs/qt >> selected: 4.4.2 >> protected: none >> omitted: 3.3.8b-r1 >> >> x11-libs/qt-svg >> selected: 4.4.2 >> protected: none >> omitted: none >> >> x11-libs/qt-opengl >> selected: 4.4.2 >> protected: none >> omitted: none >> >> x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns >> selected: 4.4.2 >> protected: none >> omitted: none >> >> x11-libs/qt-assistant >> selected: 4.4.2-r1 >> protected: none >> omitted: none >> >> x11-libs/qt-webkit >> selected: 4.4.2 >> protected: none >> omitted: none >> >> What did I miss? This results in an infinite circle of unmerging and >> emerging. >> >> Thanks for any help >> >> kh >> >> >> > > In your /etc/make.conf file do you have the following line? > > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" > > You can do this on the emerge command line if you choose. See man > emerge for info on doing that. > > I *think* the standard answer about why this happens is that > --depclean and a basic emerge don't search all the dependencies > exactly the same. If you add the --with-bdeps y option then they do. > > Anyway, I don't seem to run into this much using this in make.conf. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > > >
+1 I added that to my make.conf a while ago and it helped with a lot of this sort of thing. Wonder if it should be a default thing? Dale :-) :-)
