How do I upgrade to new KDE version ? [solved]

[Raqua]

Hi all.

I want to upgrade KDE from version 3.5.6 to 3.5.7.

I read somewhere, that if one wants to pull the whole KDE, it is nescessary to emerge kde-meta, which has the whole KDE as dependencies. This seems to be true as I did emerge pretend.
There are also other 'meta' packages for parts of KDE.

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# emerge -pu world | grep meta

[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kdetoys-meta-3.5.7
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kdeutils-meta-3.5.7  USE="crypt -lirc"
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kdewebdev-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6]
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kdeadmin-meta-3.5.7
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kdenetwork-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6] USE="-wifi*"
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kdeedu-meta-3.5.7
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kdegraphics-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6] USE="-imlib* -scanner*"
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kdeartwork-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6]
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kdegames-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6]
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kdemultimedia-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6]
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kdeaddons-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6]
[ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kdepim-meta-3.5.7  USE="pda"
[ebuild     U ] kde-base/kde-meta-3.5.7 [3.5.6] USE="-accessibility*"


When I select these for update, they want to pull the whole KDE 3.5.7 although I do not have installed everything in my machine. For example I do not want to have KDE games installed but portage insist to install them.
So, how do I upgrade only those packages, that already are in my system without installing all the stuff I do not need ?
I selected those existing package by hand and updated them one by one, but I sill have these meta packages hanging there as those that need to be updated.

[flick]

You could try :

# emerge -pu kdebase-meta

and see what that pulls up. In theory that's the core of KDE, with no games/etcetera. Then you could just update/upgrade other individual KDE programs that you did want.

Hope that's helpful.

[Raqua]

Yeah, I did that, but I still have the rest of the meta-packages waiting im my machine.

I mean, when I do emerge -pu world, I see these packages there. I tried to mask them, but then I could not emerge ony other KDE related packages - there were some blocks.

[voxiac]

You could try adding the stuff you don't need to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided thus tricking portage into believing that it's already installed.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/h ... hap3_sect1

[Raqua]

Thank you, this seems to help.