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On Friday 27 November 2009 23:07:25 Jörg Schaible wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote: |
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> >> kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except |
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> >> for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages. |
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> >> It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some syntax or a better |
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> >> method to insure all the kde-3.5.x packages are removed, |
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> >> without a manual sweep? |
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> > |
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> > grep kde /var/lib/portage/world |
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> > and eyeball the output. There should only be -meta packages, and |
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> > individual packages for which you have NOT installed the -meta package, |
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> > in there. vi the world file and remove the stuff that shouldn't be there, |
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> > then |
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> > |
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> > emerge -C <all-kde3.5-meta-packages-in-world> && emerge -a --depclean |
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> as alternative simply append to all kde-base/* packages in world :4.3 and |
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> do then a depclean ;-) |
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Which promptly defeats the ENTIRE purpose of a world file and -meta packages. |
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If that's how you want to admin your box, can I recommend you switch to |
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sabayon instead? |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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