On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new > version? > This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they > go to different slots. > Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that. > > Thanks for a hint, > Helmut.
I had no problems going form 4.4rc2 to 4.4. Besides removing soprano. And slots don't mean anything since everything ends straight in /usr. If there are blocks, unmerge them. emerge -C ... or even faster pmerge --unmerge ... pretty easy. You can even unmerge whole sets. Superfast.