On 2005-12-23 00:12:41 -0600 (Fri, Dec), Dale wrote: > Hi guys, and Holly, > > I have a rig that I need to free up some space on the hard drive. I > want to remove KDE completely. Naturally doing a emerge unmerge kde > does not get the job done. What is a easy way to do this? I did a > emerge -ep world | grep kde but it is one heck of a list. It's 6 pages > long in OOo. > > There has to be a easy way. Be gentle with me now. I'm learning. Oh, > if it is a mile long, give me a map of what it is doing. Sort of > explain it's thinking to me a bit. I do now what the pipe thing is > though. That can be neat. Would be nice if unmerge kde would work > though. >
emerge -va unmerge $(grep kde /var/lib/portage/world) emerge -va depclean I hope that would do the trick. -a will ask you before doing unmerge. Alternate way: cd /var/db/pkg/kde-base for x in *; do emerge unmerge "=$x" ; done HTH. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by 'grep -i virus $MESSAGE' Trust me.
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