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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:08:14
Message-Id: 200911262120.26046.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal by James
1 On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote:
2 > kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except
3 > for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages.
4 > It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some syntax or a better
5 > method to insure all the kde-3.5.x packages are removed,
6 > without a manual sweep?
7 >
8
9 grep kde /var/lib/portage/world
10 and eyeball the output. There should only be -meta packages, and individual
11 packages for which you have NOT installed the -meta package, in there. vi the
12 world file and remove the stuff that shouldn't be there, then
13
14 emerge -C <all-kde3.5-meta-packages-in-world> && emerge -a --depclean
15
16 --
17 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
[gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@×××.de>