Mike Myers posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:05:57 -0600:
> Do you know if there's a way or going to be a way to handle the split > ebuilds so that reemerging or unemerging a split ebuild will reemerge or > unemerge the corresponding packages? It seems like the ebuilds are only > intended to make installing kde easier, which they do, but it doesn't > make handle uninstalling or reinstalling a split ebuild very easy at > all. As others have said it's a technical/portage issue. Unmerging a package always leaves dependencies behind. To clean those up, emerge -NuD world (to ensure use dependencies are uptodate), emerge -p depclean (to get a list of what it thinks is unneeded), fix anything on that list you know to be needed (add it to world), then either unmerge individually (as I do, even then, ensuring I haven't missed adding something to world that I should have, verifying what each package does and thinking about whether I actually do need it as I go) or if you prefer, use the depclean without the -p, then, finally, do a revdep-rebuild (first -p it, of course) to catch any dependencies that still might have slipped thru and need rebuilt. Upgrading is a bit more sensitive. However, with things like KDE upgrades, I'll often use the --prune parameter on emerge, combined with -p first of course. Then again, I unmerge manually as necessary. One other method I've used is to do an equery list of kde packages, then grep it for the version I want to unmerge, to get a list of old packages. So an upgrade from 3.4 to 3.5 I'd grep for 3.4. Finally, when you've unmerged most old KDE packages, take a look at the old /usr/kde/<ver> dir and see what's left there, then do equery belongs <file> with what's left, to figure out the packages they belong to. Anything left over that doesn't belong to a package should be deletable, or if you prefer to be safe, move it to a backup dir for a month or so first, so you can restore it if necessary. Again, after unmerging stuff, a revdep-rebuild is recommended. As others said, please move futher discussion to either user or desktop. I don't look at user, but I'm a regular over in desktop, where KDE questions are happily answered, as it's certainly part of desktop. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
