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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:49:24
Message-Id: tkrat.ee499695b1dede06@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On 10 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new
6 >> version?
7 >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they
8 >> go to different slots.
9 >> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that.
10 >>
11 >> Thanks for a hint,
12 >> Helmut.
13 >
14 > I had no problems going form 4.4rc2 to 4.4. Besides removing soprano.
15 >
16 > And slots don't mean anything since everything ends straight in /usr. If there
17 > are blocks, unmerge them.
18 >
19 > emerge -C ...
20 >
21 > or even faster
22 >
23 > pmerge --unmerge ...
24 >
25 > pretty easy. You can even unmerge whole sets. Superfast.
26
27 Thanks, but what's 'pmerge' ?
28 Is it in any overlay?
29
30 Helmut.
31
32 --
33 Helmut Jarausch
34
35 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
36 RWTH - Aachen University
37 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>