Howdy, I ran into a issue with qt upgrades and it got interesting. Since it was part way through, some applications that I needed wouldn't open due to a mismatch in versions. When I tried to logout and back in, sddm wouldn't come up either, same reason I assume. Now that I'm back, I'm wanting to see if I can do upgrades by building the packages first and then using the -K option. Thing is, when I tried that just now for the rest of this huge upgrade, I get this little message at the bottom.
!!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again. So, I have to emerge packages in order to emerge others. I get that packages depend on each other but is there a way around that? Would I need to set up a chroot and build it there or is there a better way. Since it is the compiling that seems to cause issues generally, I'm wanting to do that first and then it just install from the binary. I figure someone out there has found a good way to do this. I just hope someone is willing to share their good way to do this. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
