On Wednesday 18 March 2009 20:09:42 Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> I'm just curious about this block I noticed...
>
> [uninstall ] x11-libs/qt-4.3.3
> [blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-core ("x11-libs/qt-core" is blocking
> x11-libs/qt-4.3.3)
> [blocks b ] <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 ("<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4"
> is blocking x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.2,
> x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2-r1, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2)
>
> So, presumably qt-core was renamed to just qt, so that's why I'm being told
> to unmerge qt-core and merge qt?
>
> I'm just curious about what causes this. I'm getting there slowly...
No, it's a monolithic to split-ebuild switch
Remember when kde added kde*meta packages in addition to just kde*?
qt did the same thing and the old large qt was replaced by several smaller qt-
* packages.
You have to unmerge qt and merge qt-*. They cannot co-exist as every file in
qt-core collides with qt
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