I try to update PyQt4: emerge -1av PyQt4 The output I get is: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] dev-python/sip-4.8 [4.7.9] USE="-debug -doc%" 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-python/PyQt4-4.5 [4.4.4-r5] USE="X dbus kde opengl qt3support svg webkit -assistant -debug -doc -examples -phonon -sql -xmlpatterns" 0 kB [blocks B ] >=dev-python/PyQt4-4.5_pre1 (">=dev-python/PyQt4-4.5_pre1" is blocking kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4) Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades), Size of downloads: 0 kB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. ('installed', '/', 'kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4', 'nomerge') pulled in by >=kde-base/pykde4-4.2.4:4.2[-kdeprefix] required by ('installed', '/', 'kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4', 'nomerge') ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-python/PyQt4-4.5', 'merge') pulled in by >=dev-python/PyQt4-4.4.0[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.2.4', 'nomerge') >=dev-python/PyQt4-4.1[X] required by ('installed', '/', 'media-video/qt-recordmydesktop-0.3.8', 'nomerge') PyQt4 (and 1 more)
This is desired as pykde4-4.2 is incompatible with PyQt4.5. To solve this issue you need to put: >=dev-python/sip-4.8 >=dev-python/PyQt4-4.5 in your package.mask (or package.mask/) Please leave this bug open so that users don't create duplicates.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 273473 ***