On 04/03/2017 14:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 04 Mar 2017 12:42:38 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 04/03/2017 11:45, Peter Humphrey wrote: >>> Greetings. >>> >>> This is a KDE ~amd64 box, which still depends on kde-apps/kdepimlibs:4 >>> for many things. I've been running happily on =app-crypt/gpgme-1.5.5, >>> but today portage wants to upgrade to =app-crypt/gpgme-1.8.0-r2. But >>> that version can't be installed while kdepimlibs:4 is still around, as >>> I see from the ebuild: >>> >>> [...] >>> RDEPEND="${COMMON_DEPEND} >>> >>> cxx? ( >>> >>> !kde-apps/gpgmepp >>> !kde-apps/kdepimlibs:4 >>> >>> )" >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Is it even possible to satisfy that condition? >> >> No, but you can mask app-crypt/gpgme-1.8.0-r2 and stay on 1.5/1.6 > > Yes, I've done that, but why has such silliness been allowed out?
Maybe that combination never got tested? It's a ~arch package, so you get to be a field tester when you use it :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com