On April 15, 2005 03:10 pm, quoth Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:39:48 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > > I am now running kde-3.4. How do I get rid of kde-3.3.2? I don't even > > know how to get rid of it one package at a time because emerge and > > equery don't allow wildcards. > > A brute force approach would be > > qpkg -I -v -nc -g kde-base | grep 3.3.2 | xargs emerge -Ca > > If you have installed the monolithic 3.4 ebuilds, you can do the less > clumsy > > qpkg -I -g kde-base -nc | xargs emerge -Pa > > which removes all but the most recent version of each kde-base package.
Thanks Neil. Your solution worked, but I needed one extra step. I had to qpkg -I -v -nc -g kde-base | grep 3.3.2 | xargs emerge -C after I qpkg -I -v -nc -g kde-base | grep 3.3.2 | xargs emerge -Ca -- Robert Persson "Don't use nuclear weapons to troubleshoot faults." (US Air Force Instruction 91-111, 1 Oct 1997) -- [email protected] mailing list
