gentoo emerge and blocks

[Collins Richey]

> On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 15:01:34 -0600
> Alan Jackson <ajackson at oplnk.net> wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I'm confused. I have the following emerge situations :
> > 
> > bash-2.05b# emerge --pretend --update qt
> > 
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> > 
> > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > [ebuild     U ] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 [4.3.0-r2] 
> > [ebuild     U ] media-libs/lcms-1.11 [1.09] 
> > [blocks B     ] <kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 (from pkg x11-libs/qt-3.2.3-r1)
> > [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.3-r1 [3.1.2-r4] 
> > 

It's really quite simple.  The blocking package must be removed.  The developers have determined that this package will not work as is if the latest qt package is installed:

emerge -C kdelibs-3.1.4
emerge qt
emerge kdelibs

It's just a variant of the well known adage: kde/qt is a PITA.

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