John Covici wrote: > It would seem impossible for me to switch to profile 17.1. I say this > because I can never run emerge --depclean . I have a few packages > which will not compile and one not in the tree anymore. the packages > which will not compile are mono-4.4.1.0 and totem-3.30 -- I have filed > bugs against both of them. Inn no longer configures and I have > discussed this in another thread. So, where can I go with this? I > hate to just go forward, although these packages look they don't have > any lib32 dependencies. Wat do you thihnk about this? > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > >
I read other replies and had a thought. Couldn't you run emerge -p --depclean and let it list what needs cleaning up, then clean it up manually with -C or some other option that works? It would take more time to do it that way but at least you would have a cleaner system without removing your packages you want to keep. May make the profile switch easier. Also, you could use --exclude on --depclean as well. Since I rarely reboot, I do manual updates on my kernel, I emerge them then mask them so it doesn't want to update every little version increase. When I run --depclean, I have to use --exclude gentoo-sources to make it ignore my kernel sources. In your case, emerge -p --depclean --exclude mono --exclude totem --exclude inn, assuming I have that last one spelled correctly. Just make sure you use -a or -p with those first. Wouldn't want to forget and really mess up something. :/ Would either of those work for you? Dale :-) :-)
