Re: [gentoo-user] removing kde4(sets)

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

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:45:54 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
>
>> >> Are there any tricks to remove all of kde4, or do
>> >> I have to do it manually?
>> >
>> > The set and the meta-package pull in basically the same packages.
>> > Unmerge the set, emerge kde-meta then do a depclean to catch any
>> > stragglers.
>>
>> I would just delete the set from the world_sets file, then emerge
>> kde-meta, then depclean... much easier than unmerging everything and
>> recompiling it.
>
> Sorry, that's what I meant. I was thinking that unmerging a set was like
> unmerging a meta-package, that only the set itself would go.

Ah, okay, we meant the same thing then. :) AFAK emerge -C @set will
remove everything in @set but there's no portage command to remove the
set definition without unmerging what's in it.  I could be wrong on
that, though.