On Friday 27 November 2009 23:07:25 Jörg Schaible wrote: > 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 > > > > emerge -C <all-kde3.5-meta-packages-in-world> && emerge -a --depclean > > as alternative simply append to all kde-base/* packages in world :4.3 and > do then a depclean ;-)
Which promptly defeats the ENTIRE purpose of a world file and -meta packages. If that's how you want to admin your box, can I recommend you switch to sabayon instead? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
