On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:28:41 -0400, Peter wrote:

> I recently installed KDE 3.4 successfully (I did this by putting each
> required module in package.keywords with ~x86). I tried to unmerge kde
> 3.3.2, yet when I did
>
> emerge -C =kde-3.3.2

Apparently, this had already been reported and shelved for the time being.

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13133

------- Additional Comment #3 From Terje Kvernes 2003-01-10 04:48 PST -------

kde is a metapackage. it doesn't install anything on its own, all it does is
pull in dependencies. these dependecies in total become the Gentoo KDE-package.
hence, when it removes nothing, it does it's job.

if you which to uninstall what kde-base/kde installed you'll need to look at the
dependecies in that ebuild and remove them manually. portage should probably
sometime learn to understand the concept of a metapackage, so we don't have to
fake it like this, but until then, you're stuck.



Thanks for the workarounds though. There _SHOULD_ be a more user friendly
way to do this though.

Regards