On Wednesday 15 February 2017, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 15/02/2017 15:14, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Having finally got a stable KDE5 system I did an emerge depclean and got > > 288 candidates! I am not sure which packages I need to keep and which > > can go. I assume any package like kde-apps/kxxx-4.14* can go unless you > > actually want it, but I am unclear about packages like > > kde-apps/plasma-apps-15.12.3 which are slotted as 4 but have upgrades to > > 16.08.3. Do I still need these? > > For the most part, no. > > Almost every kde4 package (libs, apps, plugins, and more) got updated > for KDE% and many were pkgmv'ed around to new categories. So 288 sounds > like the right ballpark from memory. > > I found that the kde ebuild maintainers did a really good job with this, > and virtually every upgrade went smooth for me. The KDE4 apps I still > have (amarok, k3b, etc) have their DEPENDs correct so depclean tends to > be correct as is, including the plasma SLOTs. > > If your world file is in good condition I recommend you let portage > clean what it wants to. In the unlikely evnt the devs missed something, > you can always emerge a missing package or two back.
Thanks, Alan. I have added a few packages to world and will let emerge go ahead! Cheers Robin -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Robin Atwood. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.