Akos Szalkai posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:31:13 +0200 as excerpted: >> I did that, and I do have a few KDE things in world. My question is, >> how do I fix that? I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/world >> directly. Is there some other, better way? >> >> > Don't be nervous about it, I've been doing it for a long time. :) Make > a backup copy before though, just to be sure. > > And don't remove all KDE stuff from world, just the 4.2 versioned ones > (like kde-base/kde-meta:4.2). > > Actually, I did not know there was a wiki page about it, so after > meeting the blocks, I just removed all KDE-4.2 packages and installed > kde-meta:4.3.
Editing the world and indeed world_sets file, really isn't a big deal, especially for deleting, as long as you delete the entire line. Adding gets a bit more complicated, but even that isn't too bad, as long as you're careful to get the full package category and name correct, and append the :slot info if necessary. However, while I do still hand-edit the (much smaller) world_sets file, I haven't hand-edited the world file in ages, preferring to let portage do it with emerge -C to unmerge for removing lines. For adding lines, same thing, only since my emerge scripts add --oneshot by default (so I never have to worry about dirtying my world files), I do a remerge with --noreplace (and without -1) to actually add packages to the world file if I want them there. That doesn't remerge the package due to the --noreplace, just asks me if I want to add the package to the world file, which I do, at that point. Actually, my script invocation for the add is eaa <pkg>, for emerge --ask <add>. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
