Peter <peter@localhost.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 21:28:41 -0400, Peter wrote:
> [...]
>> emerge -C =kde-3.3.2
>
> Apparently, this had already been reported and shelved for the time being.
>[...]
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Thanks for the workarounds though. There _SHOULD_ be a more user friendly
> way to do this though.

I have not tested it, but shouldn't "emerge -D --depclean"
do the job after the above unmerge command?
If it does not, then I would consider this as a bug of --depclean,
not as a bug of the metapackage handling.