On Thursday 22 June 2006 18:28, James wrote: > have looked at threads on this issue from 12jun06 > and 2jun06 > and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-split-ebuilds.xml. > By the way, this doc is good for explaining the issues, > but does not explain a clear method to perform the migration > form mono to meta......
Did you look at [1] too? > Is there an easy way to remove all of the kde packages before > migration to kde-meta? Sure. But it would remove packages that the meta packages depend on too. kde-base/kdelibs takes a long time to compile and hence shouldn't be removed as you still need it. Unless of course you need to upgrade it anyway. This might be feasible: #cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva `ls -d kde-base/* | grep -v -r 'kdelibs\|arts'` It will remove everything in the kde-base category except kdelibs and arts. Make sure to check what it removes before doing it. It shouldn't be more than 13 packages. [SNIP] > But if meta > is going away, like the monolithic kde packaging (eventually) > I'd rather go straight to the split kde package system. > Comments and Recommendations on kde-meta's future? Why would you think the kde-meta aka the split packages would be going away? They certainly won't. > emerge -atv kde-meta > lists many packages and I'm too lazy to remove them all by > hand.... Actually there aren't a lot of monolithic packages. [1] lists them all in a box in section 2. If you have all of them you still need to remove only 13 packages. > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > .[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5* (is blocking > kde-base/kaboodle-3.5.2) .[blocks B ] =kde-base/kdemultimedia-3.5* (is > blocking > kde-base/kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data-3.5.2) This tells you that kde-base/kdemultimedia blocks both kaboodle and kdemultimedia-kappfinder-data. You only need to remove the one package kdemultimedia. It just blocks a lot of packages that are pulled in by kde-meta. [SNIP] > From mono to split? Some gentoo/kde systems I manage will want > to go to the split system or a few kde-meta packages and the > rest of the kde(split) apps individually installed. Do what I said above or just remove the few packages manually when they block something. There really aren't that many. emerging any split package will work just as well as the meta packages. You should only use the meta packages if you wan't everything. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml -- Bo Andresen
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