After not booting my Gentoo system for several months, I’ve come back to find myself in a bit of a bind with QT packages. Some are outdated and absent from the current package tree, which suggests I might have left a system update incomplete last time I used it.

I’m dealing with version conflicts among QT packages, and standard commands like emerge --sync followed by emerge -auDN @world have not resolved the problems. I’ve attempted manual updates and tackled dependency issues without success, and I feel like there might be a deeper issue or something obvious I’m overlooking.

For technical troubleshooting, I ran uname -a and cat /etc/gentoo-release to gather system info. I’ve also tried to manually unmask and update QT packages, checked for blockers, and reviewed package.use flags, but the issues persist.

I have a couple of questions:

1. Has anyone faced similar issues with QT package versions after a long system downtime? How did you resolve it?
2. Are there recommended strategies for managing dependencies of packages that are no longer in the tree?

I would really appreciate any insights or suggestions you might have. I’m open to a reinstallation if it would resolve the issue, but I would appreciate confirmation on whether this is necessary.