Re: [gentoo-user] depclean question

[Dale]

james wrote:
> OK,
>
> So I just updated one of my system and all went fine.
>
>
> I have not cleaned things up in a while, so I thought
> I'd see what depclean says, know that I'm using kde4
> and sets.....
>
>
> So I get a huge list, including lots of kde-base 4.2.2 packages.
>
>
> Hmmm, something is not right.
> 'emerge -uDNvp world' reveals nothing to update, yet depclean what
> to remove lots of kde-base/<atom>-4.2.2 packages. Here's one example:
>
>
> emerge -pv depclean shows this entry
> <snip>
>  kde-base/libkdegames
>     selected: 4.2.2
>    protected: none
>      omitted: none
>
>
> OK eix shows this:
> kde-base/libkdegames
>      Available versions:
>         (3.5)   3.5.9 ~3.5.10
>         (4.2)   (~)4.2.2 (~)4.2.3
>      Installed versions:  4.2.2(4.2)(10:10:14 04/28/09)
>
> Now emerge what to update it:
>
> emerge -pv libkdegames
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U ] kde-base/libkdegames-4.2.3 [4.2.2]
>
>
> What am I missing here? Shouldn't the upgrade or world
> pick up the the need to upgrade these packages, or
> do I need some syntax to check my (kde 4) sets to see if
> any of them need updating? (missed something here).
>
>
> And why does depclean want to remove all of these kde 4
> packages?  Surely, I do not have to put them
> all in the world file? Use something other than depclean
> with sets?
>
>
> confused,
> James
>
>
>
>

This may not be correct but here goes anyway.  I don't think portage
checks for sets that way.  I may be wrong.  If you want portage to check
the sets for upgrades, you may need to add the name of the sets to the
file /var/lib/portage/world_sets.  I have @system in that file so that
when I upgrade world, it checks system too.

Someone else may have a better solution to this tho.

Dale

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