"Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: [...]
> 1) "eselect profile list" and switch to a basic non-KDE profile of your > choice. Moved from: default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop * to default/linux/amd64/13.0 * > > 2) "emerge gentoolkit" if not already present. > > 3) "cat /var/lib/portage/world" and see what KDE stuff you have. No kde in there > 4) Unmerge (i.e. "emerge --unmerge) obvious KDE-related stuff that you > find in world. got that accomplished and and several more pkgs that were causing blocks > 5) "emerge --depclean" (May not help if you've done "emerge --sync" and > not fully updated). > Nothing gets listed there > The next 3 steps are going to be repeated several times > > 6) "emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world" > > 7) You'll probably see portage try to pull KDE back in. For each lib > "fu-bar/foobar" that portage tries to pull in do "equery d fu-bar/foobar" > and manually unmerge whatever it finds. (Note: gentoolkit provides the > equery tool). > 8) GOTO 6 (until portage stops trying to pull in KDE stuff). I'm still working on this, but wanted to thank you for your input. I like help that has an outline of how to go at something. Very helpful.. and I seem to be close to getting this cleaned up.
