Hello Peter,

thank you for your quick answer! Seems to be of use for me.

> Well, that *is* the only safe way to do it. *IF* you carefully follow
> instructions, you will rarely see any problems, and what little you do
> see can usually be corrected with revdep-rebuild. Anyway, here is my
> procedure:
>
> 1. Run "emerge -DuavN world" (extremely important)

Well, there is an available update for OpenOffice.org which I wanted to
emerge in the next days while I am at school. You know, OOo2 needs about
20 hours to compile on this box (500 Mhz)... And I am not going to take
openoffice-bin or however this binary packages was called. So at this
moment I have outstanding updates but I am not willing to emerge that
now.

Is it really necessary to do *all* updates before removing other stuff?

Beside this there's another problem: I run that first command and got a
list of packages I do not want to emerge. For example the binary ATI
drivers which I installed one day. I removed them from the world file
and an easy "emerge --update world" does ignore it, but the command you
gave me wants to emerge the ATI drivers again. How can I prevent it from
doing so?


Once again thank you for your advice!

Daniel Böhmer