From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ETPvy-0006Le-Nz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:25:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9MKMOXa025884; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:22:24 GMT Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9MKIfRM002098 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 20:18:42 GMT Received: from mail.joat.com ([71.114.131.135]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IOS00LR9383S6N0@vms042.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:21:40 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (cornholio.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479A14843 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:19:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.joat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.joat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 09953-01 for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:19:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from butthead.joat.com (butthead.joat.com [192.168.0.10]) by mail.joat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:19:46 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:23:43 -0400 From: Dave Nebinger Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -u world won't update kde metapackages In-reply-to: <200510221307.17624.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200510221623.43166.dnebinger@joat.com> Organization: Joat.com Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at joat.com References: <200510221307.17624.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk> User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 X-Archives-Salt: 227ec84c-ba03-4b4b-b39b-2b586d86b752 X-Archives-Hash: eaa5f01d360152156ff45078c3e32626 On Saturday 22 October 2005 04:07 pm, Robert Persson wrote: > I know I can "emerge kdebase-meta kdeaddons-meta kdeblahblahblah" to get > things up to date, but is there a way to get portage to actually deal with > kde nicely like it used to? Just "emerge kde", you don't need to work with the meta packages themselves. The kde is itself a meta package and will ensure the sub-packages are kept up to date (at least that's how it's been working on my box). Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list