Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:57:58
Message-Id: 58965d8a0908250743q6cb788o293a8ba587d65fe3@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page by Mark Haney
1 On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Mark Haney<mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > Akos Szalkai wrote:
3 >>> I did that, and I do have a few KDE things in world. My question is,
4 >>> how do I fix that? I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/world
5 >>> directly. Is there some other, better way?
6 >>>
7 >>
8 >> Don't be nervous about it, I've been doing it for a long time. :) Make
9 >> a backup copy before though, just to be sure.
10 >>
11 >> And don't remove all KDE stuff from world, just the 4.2 versioned ones
12 >> (like kde-base/kde-meta:4.2).
13 >
14 > I appreciate the vote of confidence, but this still doesn't answer my
15 > question on HOW do I remove those entries from world? Edit the world
16 > file or emerge -C or what?
17
18 emerge -C should be just fine. If you edit the world file, you'd have
19 to then emerge --depclean afterward, which could be an adventure
20 depending on how long it has been since you last ran that command.