Bug 33299 – kdelibs-3.1.4 blocks qt-3.2.2-r1 on certain setups

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Stefan U. Hegner 2003-11-12 05:55:06 UTC]

When trying to do a world-update on one of my machines, the new qt gets blocked by kdelibs-3.1.4. There is no older version of kdelibs installed. re-compiling kdelibs doesn't help either.

[blocks B     ] <kde-base/kdelibs-3.1.4 (from pkg x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1)
[ebuild     U ] x11-libs/qt-3.2.2-r1 [3.1.2-r4]

However, on another machine i do not have this problem. I made there a binary of kdelibs and installed it on the machine where qt blocks ... but still don't get a chance to install qt-3.2.2 - not even as a binary.

On the German Mailing List there was at least one Person having the same problem.

Could this have to do with USE-Flags or other dependencies installed?

[Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2003-11-12 06:23:36 UTC]

please look a bit closer at the blocker and you'll see that qt is blocked by kdelibs versions below 3.1.4. So just run
emerge --unmerge \<kdelibs-3.1.4
to get rid of those (the backslash is important).

[Comment 2 Bart Lauwers (RETIRED) 2003-11-13 05:34:52 UTC]

qt is a build dependency of kdelibs and as such _should not_ depend on it.

This is a circular dependency, which is _bad_!

Fix this instead of dismissing it!

[Comment 3 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-13 08:12:25 UTC]

What is your proposed fix?

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-11-13 08:15:01 UTC]

it doesnt depend on it, it blocks it

blockers do not cause circular dependencies

i say we dup of Bug 28948

[Comment 5 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-11-13 08:47:05 UTC]

works for me.

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2003-11-13 09:02:00 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 28948 ***