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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 23:58:28
Message-Id: 42ED6435.7060809@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading KDE by David Corbin
1 David Corbin wrote:
2 > On Sunday 31 July 2005 05:59 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
3 >
4 >>On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:28:49 -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>root@Merlin:/# emerge --pretend kde-meta
7 >>>
8 >>>These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
9 >>>
10 >>>Calculating dependencies ...done!
11 >>>[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.4* (is blocking
12 >>>kde-base/kscreensaver-3.4.1)
13 >>
14 >>You currently have KDE installed with the monolithic ebuilds. to stay
15 >>with them, use "emerge -av kde" instead of kde-meta (there's not a lot of
16 >>point in using the split ebuilds if you're going to install everything
17 >>anyway). Alternatively, you'll have to unmerge that various kdebase, and
18 >>probably some of the other monolithic ebuilds, before merging kde-meta.
19 >>Don't unmerge kdelibs or arts, they are the same whichever set of ebuilds
20 >>you use.
21 >
22 >
23 > What's the best way to find out what all the "split ebuilds" are?
24 >
25 > David
26
27
28 The kde-meta ebuild should cover all of the split ebuilds. If you read that you will discover that it depends on other meta packages. Read the ebuilds of those meta packages to find out what they depend on, and so on.
29
30 $ equery which kde-meta
31 /usr/portage/kde-base/kde-meta/kde-meta-3.4.2.ebuild
32
33 Unfortunately, equery depgraph does not seem to be very helpful for this type of query.
34
35 Zac
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