On Mittwoch 11 Februar 2009, James wrote: > Hello, > > OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this > list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations > running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop > to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out an > upgrade strategy for all of these laptops and workstations > running kde. I'm not so concerned with being slick, > as I am discovering the verbose, *sure_footed steps* to make > the migration, mechanical, because these will be done, one > at a time, in the background while I do other work related > tasks. The systems vary wildly (cpu, video etc) but > they all have kde-meta 3.6.9 installed, currently. > > > So here are my (gleaned) steps: > > 1. emerge --unmerge kde-meta > > 2. emerge --pretend --depclean kde-meta > <check over manually> > > 3. emerge --depclean kde-meta > > 4. autounmask kde-base/kde-4.2.0 > > 5. echo "kde-base/kde-meta ~amd64" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords > > 6. emerge -DNv kde-meta > > > > Look plausible? Verbose comments are most welcome.
just emerge the kde-4.2 set instead of that meta stuff.
