Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 >
If this helps any, I have never had Gnome installed and have this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list gnome > [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm-2.6.1 (1.1) > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.6.1 (2.6) > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.6.0 (2.6) > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.6.0 (2.6) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-common-1.2.4-r4 (2) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.9 (0) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (1) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 (0) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37 (0) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 (1) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1 (2) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.14.1 (0) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.14.0 (0) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.12.1 (2.2) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.12.1 (2.2) > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.14.1 (0) > [I--] [ ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.0 (0) > [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 (0) > [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.14.2 (0) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # My USE line is this: > USE="acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount browserplugin > bzip2 cdr chroot crypt dbus doc dvd dvdr esd exif fdftk -firefox gaim > gcj gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk hal hbci ipv6 java > javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde mmx mp3 nsplugin ofx offensive > opengl -oss postgres ppds qt3 qt4 samba scanner seamonkey sqlite sse > syslog tcltk tiff tk truetype udev usb win32codecs wmf X xmms xml > xprint yahoo 3dnow " May be able to "cheat" a little and get rid of some more though. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
