Thank you, i will try this, but i have emerged the gnome-light meta-package + some other gnome packages witch are part of the gnome meta-package, but i did not remember all of them. So i thought there is a simple way to remove all of them.
When i remove the gnome light meta-package, will the additional packages i have installed become orphaned too, i am not sure if they will so i probably have to remove them manually I did not use any of the gnome packages like evolution or totem before, so i started to think the only thing i need is a nice comfortable and custumizable windowmanger and gnome even gnome-light is to big for me. Regards Daniel Holly Bostick schrieb: > Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > >>hello all, >> >>i want to test some other windowmanagers and if i find one that >>satisfies me i want to switch from the gnome-desktop to this >>windowmanager. So how can i remove all gnome packages. Is it save to >> remove all gnome-base and gnome-extra packages and run "emerge >>depclean" and "revdep-rebuild". > > > A better way would be to > > emerge -C gnome(-light) > > to unmerge the meta-package you installed (either gnome or gnome-light; > this will not unmerge any packages, just the meta-package, but it will > orphan all the dependent programs that were installed by the > meta-package, which is what you want), > > then run emerge depclean -p to show the now-orphaned dependencies of > those meta-packages, > > emerge -C(av) the ones you know you don't want (since you might, for > example, want to keep Evolution, if you use it, or Totem or whatever; > just because you don't use the GNOME desktop doesn't mean you have to > stop using every GNOME package you might enjoy, even under another WM), > > emerge (-av) any of the packages that you may want to keep (to get them > into your world file) > > run emerge depclean -p again to confirm that you got rid of everything > you wanted gone, if so, you're done, if not, rinse and repeat. > > Don't really know why a revdep-rebuild would be necessary, but it > doesn't hurt to do one (with -p first). > > And of course, you don't necessarily have to remove GNOME at all, just > because you use another WM/DE (unless you have a disk space issue or > something). Suppose your other WM/DE breaks? It can be useful to have a > "spare" around so that you have something to login to, if you feel more > comfortable inside a GUI. > > HTH, > Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
