On Donnerstag 30 Juli 2009, Mark Haney wrote: > I'm beginning to wonder if Gentoo is right for me any more. I swear, > the dependencies and USE flag changes are killing me. Here's my latest > fun: > > I'm trying to upgrade kdelibs (to 4.2.4-r4) and I get this: > > octavian ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -uav kdelib > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > > "~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[-debug,-qt3support]". !!! One of the following > > packages is required to complete your request: - x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 > > (Change USE: -qt3support) > > (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.5.2" [ebuild]) > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.4-r4" [ebuild]) > > (dependency required by "kdelibs" [argument]) > > So, based on that I need to change my USE flag for qt-core-4.5.2 to > [-qt3support], okay. I go into /etc/portage/package.use/monolithic to this: > > x11-libs/qt-core -qt3support (actually I just comment out the line, but > in effect I'm removing qt3support from qt-core). > > When I do so and I re-run the update I get this: > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > > "~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[glib,qt3support,-debug]". !!! One of the > > following packages is required to complete your request: - > > x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2 (Change USE: +qt3support) > > (dependency required by "x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2" [ebuild]) > > (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.4-r4" [ebuild]) > > (dependency required by "kdelibs" [argument]) > > So, which is it? It can't be both ways, and to be honest, trying to > figure out which file needs which USE flag on what day is getting kinda > silly.
try syncing again. And masking qt3support fro qt-core is not enough. Either enable it globally or disable it globally - or add all your qt packages to package.use.