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

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 26 Aug, Dale wrote:
> 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.  :-) 
> 

I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent
emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world
which tries to update kde, as well.
I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge
--update --newuse --deep @system @world

Still, quite tedious.
Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany