Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:34:34 James wrote: >> kde-4.3.1 went smooth, except >> for I have to manually removed all the kde-3.5 packages. >> It had kde-meta-3.5.10. Is there some syntax or a better >> method to insure all the kde-3.5.x packages are removed, >> without a manual sweep? >> > > grep kde /var/lib/portage/world > and eyeball the output. There should only be -meta packages, and > individual packages for which you have NOT installed the -meta package, in > there. vi the world file and remove the stuff that shouldn't be there, > then > > emerge -C <all-kde3.5-meta-packages-in-world> && emerge -a --depclean >
as alternative simply append to all kde-base/* packages in world :4.3 and do then a depclean ;-) - Jörg