Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] unmerging slotted group packages
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:48:31
Message-Id: 20070128104626.1745663f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] unmerging slotted group packages by Daiajo Tibdixious
1 On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:17:37 +1100, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote:
2
3 > I discovered by accident that I have KDE 3.3, 3.4, & 3.5 all installed
4 > at the same time.
5 > I wanted to clean out 3.3 (at least) and tried emerge -aC
6 > =kde-base/kde-3.3.0 which of course just did this pseudo package, not
7 > the containing packages.
8
9 > I got rid of 3.3 by doing eix -I kde & removing each sub-package
10 > manually, I just think I must be missing an easier way.
11
12 eix -A kde-base -Icn | awk '/kde-base/ {print $2}' | xargs emerge --Prune --pretend
13
14 Then remove --pretend when you are satisfied with what it wants to remove.
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17 --
18 Neil Bothwick
19
20 Employ teenagers - while they know everything.

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