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From: "Jörg Schaible" <joerg.schaible@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:08:35
Message-Id: hepf2d$dca$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2
3 > On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote:
4 >> kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except
5 >> for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages.
6 >> It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some syntax or a better
7 >> method to insure all the kde-3.5.x packages are removed,
8 >> without a manual sweep?
9 >>
10 >
11 > grep kde /var/lib/portage/world
12 > and eyeball the output. There should only be -meta packages, and
13 > individual packages for which you have NOT installed the -meta package, in
14 > there. vi the world file and remove the stuff that shouldn't be there,
15 > then
16 >
17 > emerge -C <all-kde3.5-meta-packages-in-world> && emerge -a --depclean
18 >
19
20 as alternative simply append to all kde-base/* packages in world :4.3 and do
21 then a depclean ;-)
22
23 - Jörg

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FIXED: Re: KDE3 removal Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>