On Thursday 26 November 2009 19:20:26 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
That's a good point ... over the years I have accumulated all sorts of packages I am not sure I need (by forgetting to use --oneshot). Should these be in there? ================================ kde-base/akregator kde-base/ark kde-base/drkonqi kde-base/kaddressbook kde-base/kappfinder kde-base/kate kde-base/kcalc kde-base/kcharselect kde-base/kcheckpass kde-base/kcminit kde-base/kcontrol kde-base/kcron kde-base/kdeadmin-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdeartwork-emoticons kde-base/kdeartwork-iconthemes kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver kde-base/kdeartwork-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdeartwork-sounds kde-base/kdeartwork-styles kde-base/kdeartwork-wallpapers kde-base/kdebase-data kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves kde-base/kdebase-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdebase-startkde kde-base/kdebugdialog kde-base/kdegraphics-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdelibs kde-base/kdemultimedia-kioslaves kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdenetwork-filesharing kde-base/kdenetwork-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdepasswd kde-base/kdepim-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdesu kde-base/kdeutils-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdewebdev-meta <--Yes kde-base/kdf kde-base/kdialog kde-base/kdm kde-base/kdnssd kde-base/kfilereplace kde-base/kfloppy kde-base/kgamma kde-base/kget kde-base/kghostview kde-base/kgpg kde-base/khelpcenter kde-base/khotkeys kde-base/kicker kde-base/kimagemapeditor kde-base/kjots kde-base/klinkstatus kde-base/klipper kde-base/kmail kde-base/kmenuedit kde-base/kmix kde-base/knetattach kde-base/knetworkconf kde-base/kolourpaint kde-base/kommander kde-base/konqueror kde-base/konsole kde-base/kontact kde-base/kopete kde-base/kppp kde-base/krdc kde-base/kreadconfig kde-base/krfb kde-base/kruler kde-base/kscd kde-base/kscreensaver kde-base/ksmserver kde-base/ksnapshot kde-base/kstart kde-base/ksysguard kde-base/ksystraycmd kde-base/ktimer kde-base/kuser kde-base/kweather kde-base/kwin kde-base/kxsldbg kde-base/libkcddb kde-base/libkdepim kde-base/libkonq kde-base/nsplugins ================================ Other than the metas which I have marked with "<--Yes" I'm not sure I need the rest. Shall I blow them away? > emerge -C <all-kde3.5-meta-packages-in-world> && emerge -a --depclean > -- Regards, Mick
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