"libcms clean borks KDE" issue, plus weird qt+post

[phraktle]

hi,

just wanted to post this here, if someone else happens to run into this problem:

as part of the regular "emerge rsync, update various stuff" process

- i emerged a new lcms package (1.06 -> 1.0, then cleaned the 1.06 version... after this, the KDM no longer came up.. i had to reemerge lcms, that fixed it..

- noticed that qt-3.0.4 would install postgresql-7.1.3-r4 as a dependeny... this seems odd, what the hell does QT got to do with postgres? no only that, but i already have PostgreSQL emerged, but it's 7.2-r2 (newer)... why is this?

phrak

[474]

Yup, I had the lcms issue too (I take it you meant 1.06 -> 1.08 btw). I re-emerged to fix the problem also, but I strongly suspect that one could have issued ls -l /usr/lib/*lcms* and just checked that all entries were symlinked to the actual library in existence, including any missing revisions that are known to have been previously installed. I fixed up my libpng problems this way twice ... without needing to recompile anything.

Your second point is interesting. All I know is that Qt does support some database class libraries, but I thought they were only available in the commercial edition (?). Probably best to just put "-postgres" in your make.conf just before emerging Qt, at least until it gets sorted out one day. Alternatively, edit the .ebuild file in /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt and you can clearly see the listed dependencies (which you may alter/remove - changes will get overwritten at next emerge rsync though). Here you can clearly see that it is hardwired to Postgresql 7.1.3: