Roy Wright wrote:
>
> On Jul 5, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm wanting to give KDE 4 another shot. I used autounmask to add all
>> the lines to package.unmask and package.keyword. It was quite a lot I
>> might add. Anyway, I'm getting this now.
>>
>> Total: 238 packages (2 upgrades, 2 downgrades, 117 new, 117 in new
>> slots), Size of downloads: 390,805 kB
>>
>> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
>> pulled
>> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>>
>> dev-python/sip:0
>>
>> ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/sip-4.8.1', 'merge') pulled in by
>>> =dev-python/sip-4.8.1 required by ('ebuild', '/',
>> 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.5.1', 'merge')
>> (and 2 more)
>>
>> ('installed', '/', 'dev-python/sip-4.7.9', 'nomerge') pulled in by
>> ~dev-python/sip-4.7.9 required by ('installed', '/',
>> 'dev-python/PyQt-3.17.6', 'nomerge')
>> (and 2 more)
>>
>>
>> I found the same message on the forums but found no fix for this. It
>> seems sip is not slotted and one qt package needs the old version and
>> another qt package needs the new version and both sip packages can't be
>> there at the same time.
>>
>> Ideas on how to get around this?
>>
>
> Try -python in your make.conf USE setting. That should disable the
> python
> bindings. If you run across a package that really needs the python
> bindings,
> enable just it in your /etc/portage/package.use
>
> For details, search for the "PyQt4-4.5 and pykde4-4.2.4 blockers" thread.
>
> HTH,
> Roy
>
>
>
Thanks Roy. I saw the thread subject line you mentioned but didn't
realize it was related to my issue. I'll give that a try and report
back if it doesn't like that for some reason.
Thanks much !
Dale
:-) :-)
