On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 10 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new > >> version? > >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they > >> go to different slots. > >> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that. > >> > >> Thanks for a hint, > >> Helmut. > > > > I had no problems going form 4.4rc2 to 4.4. Besides removing soprano. > > > > And slots don't mean anything since everything ends straight in /usr. If > > there are blocks, unmerge them. > > > > emerge -C ... > > > > or even faster > > > > pmerge --unmerge ... > > > > pretty easy. You can even unmerge whole sets. Superfast. > > Thanks, but what's 'pmerge' ? > Is it in any overlay? > > Helmut.
pkgcore - in a lot of cases a lot faster than portage. Especially unmerging stuff.
