Re: [gentoo-user] After KDE5 install massive depclean list

[Robin Atwood]

On Wednesday 15 February 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 15/02/2017 15:14, Robin Atwood wrote:
> > Having finally got a stable KDE5 system I did an emerge depclean and got
> > 288 candidates! I am not sure which packages I need to keep and which
> > can go. I assume any package like kde-apps/kxxx-4.14* can go unless you
> > actually want it, but I am unclear about packages like
> > kde-apps/plasma-apps-15.12.3 which are slotted as 4 but have upgrades to
> > 16.08.3. Do I still need these?
>
> For the most part, no.
>
> Almost every kde4 package (libs, apps, plugins, and more) got updated
> for KDE% and many were pkgmv'ed around to new categories. So 288 sounds
> like the right ballpark from memory.
>
> I found that the kde ebuild maintainers did a really good job with this,
> and virtually every upgrade went smooth for me. The KDE4 apps I still
> have (amarok, k3b, etc) have their DEPENDs correct so depclean tends to
> be correct as is, including the plasma SLOTs.
>
> If your world file is in good condition I recommend you let portage
> clean what it wants to. In the unlikely evnt the devs missed something,
> you can always emerge a missing package or two back.

Thanks, Alan. I have added a few packages to world and will let emerge go 
ahead!

Cheers
Robin

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