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Ryan Tandy wrote: |
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> Mike Myers wrote: |
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>> Duncan wrote |
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>> Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation. |
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>> Do you know if there's a way or going to be a way to handle the split |
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>> ebuilds so that reemerging or unemerging a split ebuild will reemerge |
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>> or unemerge the corresponding packages? It seems like the ebuilds |
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>> are only intended to make installing kde easier, which they do, but |
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>> it doesn't make handle uninstalling or reinstalling a split ebuild |
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>> very easy at all. Like, if I had kde 3.4 installed and upgraded to |
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>> 3.5 and no longer need 3.4, I can't just do 'emerge -C kde-meta-3.4', |
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>> or something similar if it's the installed with the split |
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>> metapackage. Or if I just wanted to remove some split ebuild, like |
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>> say kdenetwork, but leave the rest, I couldn't do 'emerge -c |
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>> kdenetwork-meta' to uninstall the related packages. |
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>> Basically, my concern is that how KDE is installed is quite easily |
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>> handled, but uninstalling or reinstalling is not equally as easy, at |
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>> least in some aspects. |
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>> I hope I explain myself well enough, and thanks for your response. |
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>> Mike |
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> Moving this to -user as requested by Richard. |
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> The meta-packages install their split ebuilds by way of depending on |
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> them. Therefore, to remove a complete set of split ebuilds, you can |
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> 'emerge -C kde-meta' (for example), and then run 'emerge depclean' to |
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> clear out the split ebuilds which are no longer depended on by |
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> anything. Remember to 'emerge -p depclean' first and conduct a sanity |
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> check. |
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> Also you could run 'equery depgraph kde-meta', and then use some grep |
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> and cut magic to grab the atoms, useful if depclean doesn't co-operate. |
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> HTH. |
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Thanks for moving |
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It seems like using the split ebuilds are only a mechanism for |
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installing packages, but they they don't include a mechanism for doing |
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anything else with the packages. Like, doing an emerge -C kde-meta |
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doesn't actually uninstall anything, or doing an emerge kde-meta if |
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kde-meta has already been installed doesn't reinstall anything at all. |
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Clearly, reinstalling or uninstalling those packages can be done one way |
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or another, I don't understand why reemerging or uninstalling (while not |
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all that complicated) is somewhat more involved than other packages. Is |
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anything planned to address this? Or are split ebuilds going to be left |
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that way? |
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