Re: [gentoo-user] kde 4.2.1 sill pulling in 3.5 packages

[Paul Hartman]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:26 PM, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Confidence is high that I've mucked_up this upgrade to
> kde-4.2.1.
>
> I was content to leave the system at 3.5.9 and while
> I was messing around, I guess I triggered a kde 4.2.1 install
> (I had started the upgrade and decide to wait some weeks ago.)
>
>
> Long story short, I'm now running kde-4.2.1 [OK]
>
> I moved my world file to a backup so as to avoid all
> of those dependency issues. It worked pretty well.
> However, now I'm adding the packages back a few at a
> time and lots of stuff calls for kdelibs-3.5.9-r1.
>
>
> Where I'm confused is can I have 2 versions
> of kdelibs installed at the same time?
> My gut tells me NO?
>
>
> What am I missing. Kde-4.2.1 is up and running.
> Although I have not extensively tested it, I can
> run konqueror and seamonkey and many other apps.
> just fine.
>
> So what I think I need to do (again) is
>
> Mask kdelibs 3.5.x completely?
> (syntax suggestions here for package.mask are welcome)
>
> emerge -C kde-3.5.9* (can I do this?)
> emerge --depclean -a
>
> and then watch closely what I emerge?
> ???
>
>
> obviously confused,
>
> James

I have all of KDE4 installed, and no trace of kde3 (including its
kdelibs). /Something/ in your world is requiring KDE3 libs still. Find
it and unmerge it and you'll be all set. Also check your world file to
make sure all of your KDE-related things have slots defined.

You shouldn't need to mask anything. You can unmerge kdelibs-3xx and
then update world with --tree --pretend. If it tries to pull in
kdelibs 3 again, you can see which package requires it. Then you can
unmerge that package :)