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On Thursday 22 June 2006 18:28, James wrote: |
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> have looked at threads on this issue from 12jun06 |
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> and 2jun06 |
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> and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml. |
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> By the way, this doc is good for explaining the issues, |
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> but does not explain a clear method to perform the migration |
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> form mono to meta...... |
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Did you look at [1] too? |
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> Is there an easy way to remove all of the kde packages before |
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> migration to kde-meta? |
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Sure. But it would remove packages that the meta packages depend on too. |
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kde-base/kdelibs takes a long time to compile and hence shouldn't be removed |
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as you still need it. Unless of course you need to upgrade it anyway. This |
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might be feasible: |
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#cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva `ls -d kde-base/* | grep -v -r 'kdelibs\|arts'` |
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It will remove everything in the kde-base category except kdelibs and arts. |
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Make sure to check what it removes before doing it. It shouldn't be more than |
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13 packages. |
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[SNIP] |
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> But if meta |
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> is going away, like the monolithic kde packaging (eventually) |
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> I'd rather go straight to the split kde package system. |
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> Comments and Recommendations on kde-meta's future? |
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Why would you think the kde-meta aka the split packages would be going away? |
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They certainly won't. |
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> emerge -atv kde-meta |
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> lists many packages and I'm too lazy to remove them all by |
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> hand.... |
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Actually there aren't a lot of monolithic packages. [1] lists them all in a |
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box in section 2. If you have all of them you still need to remove only 13 |
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packages. |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> .[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5* (is blocking |
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> kde-base/kaboodle-3.5.2) .[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5* (is |
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> blocking |
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> kde-base/kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data-3.5.2) |
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This tells you that kde-base/kdemultimedia blocks both kaboodle and |
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kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data. You only need to remove the one package |
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kdemultimedia. It just blocks a lot of packages that are pulled in by |
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kde-meta. |
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[SNIP] |
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> From mono to split? Some gentoo/kde systems I manage will want |
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> to go to the split system or a few kde-meta packages and the |
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> rest of the kde(split) apps individually installed. |
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Do what I said above or just remove the few packages manually when they block |
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something. There really aren't that many. emerging any split package will |
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work just as well as the meta packages. You should only use the meta packages |
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if you wan't everything. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml |
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Bo Andresen |
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