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From: Robert Persson <ireneshusband@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 09:47:37
Message-Id: 200510231828.10884.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages by "Petteri Räty"
1 [This is the third time sending this post because it doesn't seem to be
2 showing up on the list. Sorry if it ends up being a duplicate (or a
3 triplicate).]
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5 Thank you everyone!
6
7 I have now discovered that my problem was that I still had some monolithic kde
8 packages hanging around alongside the metapackages (e.g. kdeedu instead of
9 kdeedu-meta). I think I'd been unmerging them one at a time and didn't get
10 around to finishing the job. Now that I have done so emerge -u world seems
11 to be catching the kde updates the way it should.
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13 Robert Persson
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15 "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults."
16 (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997)
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