Hi all,
I'm sure the answer to this is simple but how do you re-emerge a meta pakage.
If I try emerge -avt kde-meta, none of the componant parts are re-installed.
Help please
Paul
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Hello,

this is not 'well defined request'. One would think, that you want

emerge -avet kde-meta

This _will_ do it, but you probably don't need to re-emerge
system-wide dependecies. What you could try is (if you don't have eix
already, get it in app-portage/eix):

emerge -av1 `eix '-I*' --format '<installedversions:NAMEASLOT>' ^kde-.*/`

This will re-emerge all ebuilds in kde-* categories that are currently
installed. This will be exactly the oposite, since you won't get some
packages rebuilt (f.e. qt is not in kde category, but is dependecy of
kde-meta).

I guess you could find useful this command if you're using kde overlay
(kde-sunset in my case)

eix --in-overlay kde-sunset '-I*' --format '<installedversions:NAMEASLOT>'

Did some of these do it?

Regards Ladislav Laska
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Paul Stear <gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm sure the answer to this is simple but how do you re-emerge a meta pakage.
> If I try emerge -avt kde-meta, none of the componant parts are re-installed.
> Help please
> Paul
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>

or you could try removing kde-meta, running emerge depclean to uninstall the packages that depended on it, and then re-emerging kde-meta.

On 18 September 2010 18:52, Crístian Viana <cristiandeives@gmail.com> wrote:
> or you could try removing kde-meta, running emerge depclean to uninstall the
> packages that depended on it, and then re-emerging kde-meta.

I think this way is the experienced way. The side effects of
running depclean can be interest. After this running revde-rebuild
it's recommended.

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Yes, this would be best, in case you have your dependency tree clean.

Regards Ladislav Laska
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On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:00 PM, András Csányi <sayusi.ando@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 September 2010 18:52, Crístian Viana <cristiandeives@gmail.com> wrote:
>> or you could try removing kde-meta, running emerge depclean to uninstall the
>> packages that depended on it, and then re-emerging kde-meta.
>
> I think this way is the experienced way. The side effects of
> running depclean can be interest. After this running revde-rebuild
> it's recommended.
>
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>
>