Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:11:11 -0600, Dale wrote: I ran into this a long time ago and I added this to my make.conf so that I don't forget. Try running this: emerge -uvDNa --with-bdeps y world Then see what that does. That added bit makes it look deeper into dependencies. Like you, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 08:53:31 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: emerge -C does the same. It's just that I find it easier to edit the world file directly (it's just a text file, after all, no magic in there) if I want to clean up stuff. If you don't want to delete something from world by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran 'emerge --depclean', which is reporting some 400 packages to remove now that I've got that cleaned

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:45:03 -0600, Dale wrote: If it starts to remove something that you know you want to keep, then you need to figure out why that entry was there and what can be put in the world file to keep the things you do want. And while you can edit world by hand to remove stuff,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:21:00 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: From what I've read in the past, modifying 'world' would be a big no-no, and very risky - so I never touched it - also why I never really ran 'emerge --depclean', which

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. At least I am not the only one that leaves out the NOT sometimes. The difference is, I don't blame it on hal :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. At least I am not the only one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world because the critical packages aren't in there? indeed I did. At least I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-27 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:12:18 -0600, Dale wrote: Did you mean to say that you CAN'T break a system be editing world

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Alex Schuster
BRM writes: If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a -- depclean will take care of it. You *do* keep your world file tidy, don't you? :P That would be the easiest method. If you use the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org BRM writes: If you keep your world file (/var/lib/portage/world) tidy, simply deleting all lines with KDE3 packages and running emerge -a -- depclean will take care of it. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left or right to try out either, so typically upgrades are all I need to do. You should still run

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left or right to try out either, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com - Original Message From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:34:18 -0800 (PST), BRM wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: From: Neil BothwickTo: (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever really run emerge --depclean, but I also rarely uninstall anything, but don't install things left or right

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 27 February 2010 06:53:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 02/27/2010 07:21 AM, BRM wrote: - Original Message From: Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com On 02/27/2010 04:15 AM, BRM wrote: From: Neil BothwickTo: (PST), BRM wrote: Aside from that, I'm not sure I have ever

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.5? Or reason to keep it around?

2010-02-25 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On 02/26/2010 06:06 AM, BRM wrote: I am quite happy with KDE4 - presently using KDE 4.3.5. I still have KDE 3.5.10 installed, and am wondering how much longer I need to keep it around...I probably use all KDE4 apps, though