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.
