depclean and KDE3.4

John-Boy · Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2005 6:28 pm Post subject: depclean and KDE3.4

Anybody else seeing this with the new split KDE ebuilds ? It seems that Depclean wants to remove them, I've just tried unclepine and it's showing the same results

xchris · Advocate Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 2824

i suppose you world file has some problems

emerge --depclean and unclepine act almost in the same way (unclepine tries to be more secure)
They cannot be wrong both!

did you run a "bad" ACCEPT_KEYWORD="~x86" emerge whatever ?
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John-Boy · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 5:51 am Post subject:

Cheers for the reply, no I just inserted the necessary bits out of kde-base into my package.keywords file, emerged the split kde-ebuilds and erm .. depclean acts up !

Ok - I had a bit of a look on the forums for world-file related stuff and I've found that :

xchris · Advocate Joined: 10 Jul 2003 Posts: 2824

yes.. regenworld tries to fix the problem.
Anyway it always put too much stuff in your world file.

I suggest to inspect it and take out unnecessary rows

Bye
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cyberpatrol · Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 5:56 am Post subject: depclean and KDE3.4 [NOT solved]

I have the same problem.
I've installed KDE 3.4 by emerge kde-meta.
emerge (-p) depclean wants to uninstall not every but many ebuilds from kde-base.
But for me regenworld didn't fix the problem and regenworld didn't change anything in my world file.
It should, btw, not be necessary to put all kde-meta depending ebuilds into the world file.

John-Boy · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:21 am Post subject:

Hmm - something seems a bit out of place here, I recently emerged kdemultimedia-kioslaves and korganizer. After a depclean, kdemultimedia-kioslaves was listed as a package for removal. I re-ran regenworld and both (inc korganizer) were listed as now being added to world.

I keep a (fairly) clean system as well.

John-Boy · Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 8:52 am Post subject:

Ok last update - I decided to add kxkb to my KDE3.4 install, during the emerge process I noticed that this package wasn't added to the world file at the end of the install as normal (i.e. adding packing so and so to favourites in world file). So I issued an emerge depclean -p and sure enough, kxkb to remove.

Regenworld, again added this package to my world file, no more depclean issues. So it looks as though one of two things has happened - 1) For a few ebuilds the install isn't being recorded within the world file or (much more likely, since it seems to be just me and a poster above

) 2) There's something in my system that's stopping this write - I don't know, some weird dependency thing or something ?

jstuart · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 57

I'm having a similar problem but with KDE 3.5! Regenworld doesn't seem to fix it...

I get errors like this:

!!! There appears to be a problem with the following package:
!!! =kde-base/konsole-3.5*

!!! Please ensure that blocking/conflicting packages are not merged.!!! 'emerge -p =kde-base/konsole-3.5*

and then later on, depclean wants to remove konsole!

Also noticed that revdepclean wanted to remove virutal/x11!!!! LOL
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jstuart · n00b Joined: 03 Dec 2002 Posts: 57

Follow up to this: Regenworld keeps crapping out with this error message:

* qmail is an ambigous package name, candidates are:
['mail-mta/qmail', 'virtual/qmail']

If anyone has any ideas on how to fix that, that would be nice.

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