upgrade block perl kde/plasma [solved]

s|mon · Last edited by s|mon on Fri Sep 06, 2024 6:43 am; edited 1 time in total

I am also running into issues during current world upgrades i can not resolve on my own (not seeing the hint).
Looked into world file but nothing i could pin it to myself.

https://bpa.st/TDDVG this is the emerge output

https://bpa.st/PCNJW selected
https://bpa.st/3QHCK world
https://bpa.st/LBT44 installed-testing

on the KDE part my understanding so far would be that

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9262

Indeed, there is a news item related to this KDE Plasma 6 and KDE Gear 24.05.2 upgrade that you should read.

s|mon · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 8:21 pm Post subject:

I know it may be frustrating as developer if things are described and users still dont't get it (maybe i am done for today, i have ran over the news item 2-3 times). I could have sworn i am still running a desktop profile on this machine, which is why i did not catch that part.
Nevertheless a more straightforward hint would be welcome!

Honest question on the output of the softblocks: how do i know which part is the crucial part (like in that case -kf6compat)?
Is it just because it is mentioned? If yes would it not make sense to mark this red. Because i read these lines as stating the obvious (slot 5 blocks slot 6) for a package with that use deselected.

And sorry if that sounds like a complaint - lack of time/sleep does not help - but that is what i saw when interpreting the output.

For any others running into that issue: apparently i was not using a desktop profile and therefore needed to add
USE="kf6compat qt6" globally
as stated in the textual part of the news entry

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 9262

Portage output is already quite colorful. Read it like a sentence - "this package with this version:slot and that (singled out) USE setting is softblocking that other package version"

Portage can't tell you exactly what is wrong or how to solve - for that it would need to be able to read your intentions.

s|mon · Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2024 9:04 pm Post subject:

Sure and thanks for the quick reply.
Just thinking of improvments (and also trying to learn/remember such things on my end).
Because what i saw was the main summary on the end of the emerge output which shows the blocks but not the lines with the use flag you highlighted out these are within 800 lines (yes due to verbose-conflicts) of other output above.
So in case of kguiaddons i have 11 lines out of 800+ of output on that packages with one line having the hint (besides the sentence on the news which one needs to cross check as well).
Which in case of people tends to missed hits.

But again thanks a lot for the patience and providing me the learning on how to handle another variant of blocks in future (checking use flags on the lines with [blocks] - maybe i need to grep for blocks on the complete output in addition to the summary/error at the end.