Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:04:47 + (UTC), James wrote: I've decided to just completely remove kde4(sets) and install kde4-meta. Are there any tricks to remove all of kde4, or do I have to do it manually? The set and the meta-package pull in basically the same packages. Unmerge the set, emerge kde-meta then do a depclean to catch any stragglers. -- Neil Bothwick Confucius say : He who play in root, eventually kill tree! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:04:47 + (UTC), James wrote: I've decided to just completely remove kde4(sets) and install kde4-meta. Are there any tricks to remove all of kde4, or do I have to do it manually? The set and the meta-package pull in basically the same packages. Unmerge the set, emerge kde-meta then do a depclean to catch any stragglers. I would just delete the set from the world_sets file, then emerge kde-meta, then depclean... much easier than unmerging everything and recompiling it.
Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:45:54 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Are there any tricks to remove all of kde4, or do I have to do it manually? The set and the meta-package pull in basically the same packages. Unmerge the set, emerge kde-meta then do a depclean to catch any stragglers. I would just delete the set from the world_sets file, then emerge kde-meta, then depclean... much easier than unmerging everything and recompiling it. Sorry, that's what I meant. I was thinking that unmerging a set was like unmerging a meta-package, that only the set itself would go. -- Neil Bothwick If nothing sticks to Teflon, how do they stick teflon on the pan? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)
On Thursday 29 October 2009 17:04:47 James wrote: Hello, I've decided to just completely remove kde4(sets) and install kde4-meta. Are there any tricks to remove all of kde4, or do I have to do it manually? A set is nothing more than a list of packages. You can even think of it as putting the entire set in world, with the additional feature of portage knowing what is in a set (so you cna merge and unmerge it with one command. Remove the offending lines from /var/lib/portage/world_sets, then merge the -meta packages you want, finally --depclean to take away those you don't want. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:45:54 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Are there any tricks to remove all of kde4, or do I have to do it manually? The set and the meta-package pull in basically the same packages. Unmerge the set, emerge kde-meta then do a depclean to catch any stragglers. I would just delete the set from the world_sets file, then emerge kde-meta, then depclean... much easier than unmerging everything and recompiling it. Sorry, that's what I meant. I was thinking that unmerging a set was like unmerging a meta-package, that only the set itself would go. Ah, okay, we meant the same thing then. :) AFAK emerge -C @set will remove everything in @set but there's no portage command to remove the set definition without unmerging what's in it. I could be wrong on that, though.
Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)
On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:17:23 Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:45:54 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Are there any tricks to remove all of kde4, or do I have to do it manually? The set and the meta-package pull in basically the same packages. Unmerge the set, emerge kde-meta then do a depclean to catch any stragglers. I would just delete the set from the world_sets file, then emerge kde-meta, then depclean... much easier than unmerging everything and recompiling it. Sorry, that's what I meant. I was thinking that unmerging a set was like unmerging a meta-package, that only the set itself would go. Ah, okay, we meant the same thing then. :) AFAK emerge -C @set will remove everything in @set but there's no portage command to remove the set definition without unmerging what's in it. I could be wrong on that, though. You could be wrong, but you are not :-) Your understanding of emerge -C @set is correct. Portage treats the contents of a set as strictly depending on the set itself. So there is no way to remove a set definition and leave it's child packages intact - they would then be orphans. Unless of course the child packages are themselves in world or depend on something in world. But that's a side-effect of something else altogether and not relevant to set behaviour. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:17:23 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: Sorry, that's what I meant. I was thinking that unmerging a set was like unmerging a meta-package, that only the set itself would go. Ah, okay, we meant the same thing then. :) AFAK emerge -C @set will remove everything in @set but there's no portage command to remove the set definition without unmerging what's in it. I could be wrong on that, though. You're wrong about that because you're right - I was wrong. -- Neil Bothwick This man is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot signature.asc Description: PGP signature
