Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>   
>> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
>>
>>     
>>> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
>>>       
>> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
>>
>>     
>
> How to do that in a simple way?
>
> Unfortunately, 
> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
> only unmerges the meta package itself.
>
> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
> since they always have created more headaches than any
> other package or set of packages )
>
>   

Not tested but should work.  Use the -p option to make sure.

Unmerge kde-meta:4.2
emerge --depclean -p

If that looks good, remove the -p.  It should only remove kde:4.2 and
what depends on it.  If you wait a while, I may be about to do this. 
I'm doing the same thing as you.  This DSL is soooooo cool.  :-) 

Dale

:-)  :-)