Re: multilib, slot conflicts, and the sun going down

On Fri, 03 Jul 2015 19:20:21 -0500
Brent Busby <[email protected]> wrote:

> Tiago Marques <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Besides that, were you actually able to use the desktop? A good while
> > back I was having issues with newer GCCs, HAL, consolekit and other
> > parts of the desktop's subsystem.
> >
> > My experience is ABI_X86 has unfortunately introduced conflicts
> > everywhere, not just on this overlay.
> 
> But I've got no solution for this.  It doesn't appear to be all
> multilib's fault though.  It looks like all packages that used to be
> under kde-base/ in main Portage are now under kde-apps/, and this
> expectation has carried across into the overlay somehow.  Since the
> overlay is not updated for this, it's causing most of KDE 3 to appear to
> be missing to Portage...or at least that's how it looks so far.

It's fixable:

cd /var/db/pkg/
cp -r kde-apps/* kde-base/

The last set of profile changes performed a slot-move on a bunch of KDE 
packages in a way that was inappropriate for KDE3.  This copies the files 
involved back to their old locations, making Portage acknowledge the packages 
under their old names again.  Check kde-base afterwards for unmoored 
symlinks and delete any you find.

E. Liddell