Hi, I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me.
First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which I do use. Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages, intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean' and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made. Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and gnome-panel. I know how to fix this, that's not my question. My question is why on earth does an office suite depend on half a desktop environment? And is there a (relatively) easy way to get my system back to the state it would be in if I had always had -gnome in USE all along? alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
