Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to > see action as a semi-DMZ. > > What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. > > Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears > to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. > x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. > > emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it > wrong. > > > Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a > suitable way to get rid of all the clutter?
You could remove the meta-package (the one that has size 0 and depends
on everything, I guess it's xorg-x11) and then emerge --depclean. You
probably should check, what everything that might want to remove, as it
might get the things a bit wrong, sometimes.
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time.
-- Gen. C. Abrams
Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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