On 26 Aug, Dale wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> >>> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: >>> >>> >>>> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers). >>>> >>> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to. >>> >>> >> >> How to do that in a simple way? >> >> Unfortunately, >> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2 >> only unmerges the meta package itself. >> >> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates >> since they always have created more headaches than any >> other package or set of packages ) >> >> > > Not tested but should work. Use the -p option to make sure. > > Unmerge kde-meta:4.2 > emerge --depclean -p > > If that looks good, remove the -p. It should only remove kde:4.2 and > what depends on it. If you wait a while, I may be about to do this. > I'm doing the same thing as you. This DSL is soooooo cool. :-) >
I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world which tries to update kde, as well. I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world Still, quite tedious. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
