From: user@example.net   
      
   jf wrote:   
      
   > As I do almost once a week, I tried today to update my gentoo, but a lot of   
   > kde... packages are blocked by what seems to be a previous version of   
   > kde-base. Do I have to unmerge all kde ( or kde-base) to let the system   
   > update ?   
      
   Yeah, sadly you have to uninstall the monolithic KDE3.5.9 which you have   
   installed and then install KDE3.5.10 meta as portage can't handle this kind of   
   changes.   
      
   Another option would be to remove the KDE3.5.9 from your /var/db/pkg/kde-base,   
   this way portage thinks you don't have KDE installed and it will install the   
   files over the current ones. This could lead to some orphan files, but should   
   be okey IMHO.   
      
   A third one is to mask KDE3.5.10, but this will in the length cause your some   
   dependency problems.   
      
   Fourth would be to go directly to the unstable KDE4, but with my recent   
   experience there are too many bugs there and a lot of features missing (filed   
   a bunch of bugs to the KDE developers today).   
      
   --   
      
     //Aho   
      
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