Re: [gentoo-user] Re: "emerge -DuvatN world" doesn't show all upgradeable packages

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > The other option is to use the kde*meta ebuilds, which do directly
> > depend on the sub-ordinate packages. This is what I do and I don't
> > get the effect you observed.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I think I removed kde-meta, because it installs too much stuff,
> that I don't need (like kppp). It would be nice, if the kde-meta
> ebuild would be more like the gst-plugins-meta package, in that
> it sould allow the user to specify what he wants to get installed
> and what not. It shouldn't be an all or nothing approach, IMO.
>
> Michael

alan@nazgul ~ $ ls -1d /var/portage/kde-base/*meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdeaccessibility-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdeaddons-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdeadmin-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdeartwork-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdebase-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdebindings-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdeedu-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdegames-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdegraphics-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kde-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdenetwork-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdepim-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdesdk-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdetoys-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdeutils-meta
/var/portage/kde-base/kdewebdev-meta

Use these instead of kde-meta. If you want only some stuff in one of 
those and not everything, omit the -meta, look inside it's ebuild and 
install the DEPENDS you do want.

Same result as what you asked for, different means of achieving it.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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