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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:58:49 +0100
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On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 10 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new
> >> version?
> >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they
> >> go to different slots.
> >> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that.
> >> 
> >> Thanks for a hint,
> >> Helmut.
> > 
> > I had no problems going form 4.4rc2 to 4.4. Besides removing soprano.
> > 
> > And slots don't mean anything since everything ends straight in /usr. If
> > there are blocks, unmerge them.
> > 
> > emerge -C ...
> > 
> > or even faster
> > 
> > pmerge --unmerge ...
> > 
> > pretty easy. You can even unmerge whole sets. Superfast.
> 
> Thanks, but what's 'pmerge' ?
> Is it in any overlay?
> 
> Helmut.

pkgcore - in a lot of cases a lot faster than portage. Especially unmerging 
stuff.