Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: KDE, metapackages, and monolithic packages

[Mike Myers <fluffymikey@gmail.com>]

Duncan wrote

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Thanks a lot for the detailed explanation.

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.  Like, if I had kde 3.4 installed and upgraded to 3.5 and no longer 
need 3.4, I can't just do 'emerge -C kde-meta-3.4', or something similar 
if it's the installed with the split metapackage. Or if I just wanted to 
remove some split ebuild, like say kdenetwork, but leave the rest, I 
couldn't do 'emerge -c kdenetwork-meta' to uninstall the related packages.

Basically, my concern is that how KDE is installed is quite easily 
handled, but uninstalling or reinstalling is not equally as easy, at 
least in some aspects.

I hope I explain myself well enough, and thanks for your response.

Mike
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