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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Still kde problems with monolithic->split
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:10:39
Message-Id: 200810050111.33385.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Still kde problems with monolithic->split by Dirk Heinrichs
1 On Saturday 04 October 2008 19:44:36 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
2 > Am Samstag, 4. Oktober 2008 18:55:28 schrieb meino.cramer@×××.de:
3 > > yesno: emerge -C removes it (?) physically, but it is still reported
4 > > by emerge...
5 >
6 > The following may be just a wild guess, but who knows...
7 >
8 > You state you did an emerge -C of some packages, but the packages are still
9 > reported as present by portage/emerge, right? Did you ever check that the
10 > files from those packages are really gone? If they are, did you check
11 > wether only the entries for these packages are still in the portage
12 > database (/var/db/pkg)?
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14 <Alan realises he's been daft, slaps head>
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16 Do you have any other versions of KDE in a higher SLOT?
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18 If you SLOTted 4.<something> and 3.5, then unmerging the package without using
19 a version/slot number will possibly remove the higher version number.
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24 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com