Rumen Yotov wrote:
On (08/01/06 15:22), Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
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".
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Hi,
This is the way to go, but unmerge only the "gnome-base/gnome" as it's a
'meta-package' for whole 'gnome' DE. Then run: 'emerge depclean -pv'.
Check the packages and unmerge them in smaller groups after which run
'revdep-rebuild' to check for unmerge errors.
If you more confident look at gnome dependencies (in the gnome-ebuild).
PS:Consider removing (also) the gnome USE-flag from /etc/make.conf but later
will have to re-emerge some packages (due to changed USE flag).
HTH.Rumen
I did something similiar a little while ago. I never installed Gnome
but I did not unset the gnome in the USE line so they were pulled in as
dependancies. Make sure you run revdep-rebuild -p afterwards. You may
have some things that you will have to re-compile. Make sure you have
-gnome in your USE line. I think you have to put -eds, -gtkhtml and
-bonobo in the USE line as well. Recheck that to make sure. Your
mileage may vary by what you actually want to keep. You can view the
descriptions in /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc to make sure.
I also did this once to. emerge -ep world | grep gnome just to make
sure I had all the gnome base stuff. It will show up if you missed
something. May take a while on a slower rig.
Hope this helps.
Dale
:-)
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