Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 23:07:25 Jörg Schaible wrote: >> 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 ;-) > > Which promptly defeats the ENTIRE purpose of a world file and -meta > packages.
a) I've never used the meta packages, but selected my KDE apps on purpose b) it's a lot easier this way to get rid of the KDE 3 stuff, however you should get drop of the slot again after depclean has been finished > If that's how you want to admin your box, I am using long enough Gentoo that I remember very well the times when portage destroyed the world file completely. And regenworld put *anything* into world at that time. Therefore I know very well, what should be in this file and what not. There's no magic. > can I recommend you switch to > sabayon instead? ROFL! So, you mean, if users get too smart, Gentoo is no longer their distribution? Don't be silly. - Jörg
