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Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> It reported a bunch of problems with KDE itself. Mostly with old versions, |
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> so I'd like to unmerge them. But I'm a bit unsure how to do that. Do I |
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> have to |
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> unmerge the component packages one by one, or is there some way to |
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> name all of the components of KDE 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 with one or three |
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> collective |
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> names? |
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You still have kde-3.2 installed?? You've been around Gentoo longer |
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than I have, that's for sure! |
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In any case: |
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emerge --prune kde kde-meta |
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emerge --pretend depclean |
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emerge depclean |
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> Even if I do this, there remain some current complaints from revdep-rebuild: |
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> broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/libkaddrbk_geo_xxport.so (requires |
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> libkabinterfaces.so.1) |
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> broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/libkaddrbk_gmx_xxport.so (requires |
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> libkabinterfaces.so.1) |
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> Plus some relating to openoffice-bin (I'm going to see if switching to |
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> plain openoffice helps) |
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> and one relating to perl that stumps me because it comes from the |
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> imagemagick package |
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> itself, and so presumably should know what version of its own libraries |
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> to use: |
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> broken |
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> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so |
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> (requires libMagick.so.6) |
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> I guess I'll re-emerge imagemagick and see if it helps. |
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The correct procedure is to re-merge the package whose binary is doing |
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the complaining, rather than the one whose library is being complained |
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about. A nonexistent libMagick.so.6 isn't a problem that will be solved |
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by re-merging imagemagick; the solution is to re-merge perl, which will |
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update its link to your newer version of imagemagick. I don't know what |
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KDE package the KDE libs up there belong to; try running them through |
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'equery belongs', and re-merging the relevant package. |
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When doing simple replacement merges like this, it's useful to use the |
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--oneshot or -1 option to emerge so that you don't get extra stuff |
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dumped into world, such as a KDE lib that's normally only a dependency. |
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> <more complaining> |
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> This whole area seems a lot less automated than most of the portage stuff. |
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> I know gentoo is a DIY type distribution, but this proceedure looks to |
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> me like |
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> a magnet for operator error (not to mention confusion) and could use |
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> some attention. |
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> </more complaining> |
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Unfortunately, your system doesn't seem to have been getting the proper |
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maintenance it needs in terms of keeping dynamic linking up to date and |
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cleaning out older versions of stuff. In such a case - yes, it does |
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take a bit of work to get things running smoothly. |
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Revdep-rebuild is a fairly good program considering what it's being |
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asked to do, but it isn't perfect - sometimes you just have to do a bit |
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of digging to find out what's broken. |
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