On 11/11/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > You unmerged the meta package but not its DEPENDs > > Emerge -av --depclean
OK, I re-emerged xfce4-meta, and ran emerge -av --depclean xfce4-meta(You *did* mean to add the pkg name, I presume). The wheels churned: Calculating dependencies ... done!...>>>Unmerging xfce4-base/xfce3-meta-4.6.1...No package files given...Grabbing a set...Packages installed: 436...Number removed: 1 xfce4 stil appears after running startx. revdep-rebuild -p finds "linking...consistent" mw