Can someone teach me how I'm supposed to resolve conflicts?

RayDude

In the past I have removed all of qt and kde and reinstalled from scratch to get around this.

I really don't have the time.

How do I resolve this?

dr_wulsen · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 7:30 pm Post subject: --backtrack=n

Hi RayDude,

you can try to run emerge with the --backtrack= option.
It has resolved many issues like this for me in the past.

Usuall emerge checks dependency conflicts only across three steps - and fails if the solution to the conflict is more than three steps away.
It may or may not help, but you can try

asturm · Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 7:48 pm Post subject:

One thing's for sure, you'll need to unmerge dev-qt/qtquick1. One may find out about that when looking at what Qt5 versions portage tries to install. And qtquick1 is the only one that for some reason it wants to keep at 5.6.0 despite all the others at 5.6.1. Reason being, after querying 'equery l -p qtquick1', that there simply is no 5.6.1 upgrade anymore (the package is deprecated).
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RayDude · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 2:18 am Post subject:

Thanks for the tips.

Upgrading didn't use to be this difficult. I realize I'm running unstable on some packages because I have to because of the monitor disconnect bug in plasma.

It seems to me that portage should be capable of recognizing these bogus conflicts and ignoring them.

Anyway, I've unmerged the following and am still figuring out what the next steps are.

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2618

Add --backtrack=42 to your update line. It will basically make portage a bit smarter. Also, play around with the --exclude option instead of removing packages. Much less damaging and sometimes just as effective.
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asturm · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2016 6:15 am Post subject:

RayDude · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 3:53 pm Post subject:

I had a lot of packages that are not well maintained installed. Things I looked at in the past but didn't unmerge after. Those were causing all sorts of problems.

I did find an interesting way to clean out dead packages. There's probably a better way to do this but:

khayyam · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 5:35 pm Post subject:

RayDude · Posted: Tue Jul 05, 2016 7:03 pm Post subject: