Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Mark Haney<mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> Akos Szalkai wrote:
>>> I did that, and I do have a few KDE things in world.  My question is,
>>> how do I fix that?  I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/world
>>> directly.  Is there some other, better way?
>>>
>>
>> Don't be nervous about it, I've been doing it for a long time. :)  Make
>> a backup copy before though, just to be sure.
>>
>> And don't remove all KDE stuff from world, just the 4.2 versioned ones
>> (like kde-base/kde-meta:4.2).
>
> I appreciate the vote of confidence, but this still doesn't answer my
> question on HOW do I remove those entries from world?  Edit the world
> file or emerge -C or what?

emerge -C should be just fine. If you edit the world file, you'd have
to then emerge --depclean afterward, which could be an adventure
depending on how long it has been since you last ran that command.