Hello, this is not 'well defined request'. One would think, that you want
emerge -avet kde-meta This _will_ do it, but you probably don't need to re-emerge system-wide dependecies. What you could try is (if you don't have eix already, get it in app-portage/eix): emerge -av1 `eix '-I*' --format '<installedversions:NAMEASLOT>' ^kde-.*/` This will re-emerge all ebuilds in kde-* categories that are currently installed. This will be exactly the oposite, since you won't get some packages rebuilt (f.e. qt is not in kde category, but is dependecy of kde-meta). I guess you could find useful this command if you're using kde overlay (kde-sunset in my case) eix --in-overlay kde-sunset '-I*' --format '<installedversions:NAMEASLOT>' Did some of these do it? Regards Ladislav Laska S pozdravem Ladislav Laska --- xmpp/jabber: [email protected] On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Paul Stear <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm sure the answer to this is simple but how do you re-emerge a meta pakage. > If I try emerge -avt kde-meta, none of the componant parts are re-installed. > Help please > Paul > -- > This message has been sent using kmail on gentoo. > >
