Hello, OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out an upgrade strategy for all of these laptops and workstations running kde. I'm not so concerned with being slick, as I am discovering the verbose, *sure_footed steps* to make the migration, mechanical, because these will be done, one at a time, in the background while I do other work related tasks. The systems vary wildly (cpu, video etc) but they all have kde-meta 3.6.9 installed, currently.
So here are my (gleaned) steps: 1. emerge --unmerge kde-meta 2. emerge --pretend --depclean kde-meta <check over manually> 3. emerge --depclean kde-meta 4. autounmask kde-base/kde-4.2.0 5. echo "kde-base/kde-meta ~amd64" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords 6. emerge -DNv kde-meta Look plausible? Verbose comments are most welcome. James
