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From: Jakob Kummerow <jakob.kummerow@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] How to reinstall kde-meta[RESOLVED]
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:04:34
Message-Id: AANLkTikFAnyJMZCmJpxtNU3X6Kh4JHWRMnP5MT+szHNx@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-desktop] How to reinstall kde-meta[RESOLVED] by Paul Stear
1 > I used the following code and it worked fine.
2 > for i in $(qlist -C -I kde-base/);do emerge  =$i-4.5.1;done
3
4 Yes, this works, but it means that you now have all individual KDE
5 packages installed explicitly (i.e., not just as dependencies of
6 kde-meta). This works fine for now, but quite possibly could lead to
7 weird problems when updating to the next major version, where some of
8 the packages might be removed or renamed.
9 Fix: edit your /var/lib/portage/world file, removing all
10 "kde-base/<whatever>" lines (except kde-base/kde-meta of course).
11 Please be careful not to mess up your world file.
12
13 And next time, call emerge with "--oneshot" or "-1" to prevent this
14 from happening, as in:
15 for i in $(qlist -C -I kde-base/);do emerge --oneshot =$i-4.5.1;done
16
17 Regards,
18 Jakob