On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-) > >
Could also be that you don't have slots defined for some of those in your world? for example do you have qt or qt:3 etc?
