On Donnerstag 22 Oktober 2009, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I've tried alot of things, but I give up. Can someone help me with the > knot of dependencies that has been holding my system in hostage from any > attempt to update world, for weeks now? > > This message asked if I want to merge these packages: > > !!! The following update(s) have been skipped due to unsatisfied > dependencies > !!! triggered by backtracking: > > x11-libs/qt-assistant:4 > x11-libs/qt-svg:4 > x11-libs/qt-test:4 > x11-libs/qt-script:4 > x11-libs/qt-webkit:4 > x11-libs/qt-opengl:4 > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] > > Here are the blocks: > > Total: 70 packages (54 upgrades, 9 downgrades, 6 new, 1 reinstall), Size of > downloads: 227,710 kB > Conflict: 22 blocks > > !!! One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: > > x11-libs/qt-gui:4 > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts with > ~x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2[-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/', > 'x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.5.2-r1', 'merge') > > x11-libs/qt-sql:4 > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.3', 'merge') conflicts with > > >=x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.0:4[mysql] required by ('installed', '/', > > 'app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1', 'nomerge') > > x11-libs/qt-core:4 > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.3-r1', 'merge') conflicts with > ~x11-libs/qt-core-4.5.2[qt3support,-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/', > 'x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2', 'merge') > > x11-libs/qt-dbus:4 > > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.3', 'merge') conflicts with > ~x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.5.2[-debug] required by ('ebuild', '/', > 'x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.2-r2', 'merge') > > I think one of the problems is I installed KDE 4.3.X and all of that may > need rebuilding. > > I tried installing a qt overlay. I tried unmasking a more advanced masked > qt. I've seen a number of messages, some of them from a few months back, > recommending several magical incantations. Nothing seems to get me beyond > this knot. > > Thank you, > > Alan >
show output of emerge -auvt world. but that question has been answered many times. Have you tried googling?