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> From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: |
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> >> I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE |
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> 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I |
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> probably use all KDE4 apps, though there might be a few here or there that I use |
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> on a rare occasion that are still KDE3 based...may be...and no, I don't plan on |
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> using KDE Sunset Overlay[1] |
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> >> Any how...I'm wondering what the best method to remove KDE3.5 safely is: |
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> >> 1) Just leave it and may be it'll just get removed? |
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> >> 2) Found this entry on removing it |
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> http://linuxized.blogspot.com/2008/10/how-to-unmerge-kde-3-packages-if-their.html |
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> >> But nothing registers as a 'dup' even though qlist does show a lot of KDE |
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> 3.5.10 packages installed. (Yeah, I'd need to modify the line to ensure it |
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> doesn't remove KDE 4.3.5). |
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> >> 3) Gentoo KDE4 guide suggests a method, but it seems to be more related to |
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> removing KDE entirely... |
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> >> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde4-guide.xml |
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> > If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply deleting all |
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> lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a --depclean will take care of it. |
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> > You *do* keep your world file tidy, don't you? :P |
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> That would be the easiest method. If you use the kde-meta package like I do, |
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> just remove the one for KDE 3 and let --depclean do its thing. It should get |
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> all of it. |
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I actually don't touch the world file, and just do the 'emerge world -vuDNa' for updates. |
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From my POV, that is emerge/Portage's job - not mine. |
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Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run "emerge --depclean", but I also |
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rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left or right to try out either, so |
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typically upgrades are all I need to do. |
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Having just done a compiler upgrade, I can say that there are roughly 1100 packages (emerge -eav) in world that were recompiled. |
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I was just contemplating - KDE4 is stable, and I don't see myself running KDE3 again; so why keep it around. |
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If 'emerge world -vuDNa' will remove it when it gets pushed off the main trunk, then that's probably fine with me - since that seems to not be very far out now. |
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If not, then I definitely want to remove it now as there is no other reason for keeping it around. |
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> If you want to keep something tho, you need to add it to the world file first |
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> and then run --depclean. That way it will keep the program(s) you want and the |
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> things they depend on but remove everything else. This will save you from |
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> having to reinstall those packages. You may even have to get them from the |
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> overlay at that point. So don't uninstall something you want to keep. |
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That's the only issue. My only concern is software (e.g. KDevelop) that may not have been updated to KDE4 yet. (Not a fan of KDevelop3; waiting to see how KDevelop4 is going to shape up.) |
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> If you have the drive space, you can leave it there for a while longer tho. |
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> Just keep in mind that there are no security updates or anything like that. If |
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> you add the overlay, you will get a few updates at least. |
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I do have the disk space on the systems I have KDE3 and KDE4 on; so that's not a concern. |
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Ben |
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