Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote: > >> Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first. >> >> Here are my USE flags: >> >> X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb >> cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac >> foomaticdb gif glut graphics gs gtk ieee1394 imagemagick imlib java >> javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea lame latex ldap libnotify libwww >> lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn openal opengl >> oss pdf plotutils png ppds preview-latex pstricks qt3support qt4 >> quicktime rtc samba science sdl sensord smp sndfile spell sse sse2 >> svga swat tcl tetex tiff tk truetype tta usb wavpack winbind wmp xcb xine >> xml yahoo -dri -isdnlog -pppd >> > > At a minum you'll need to remove > > X > cairo > firefox > gtk > motif > opengl > pdf > qt3support > qt4 > truetype > scb > > There will be others, that's just obvious ones from a quick scan through. > Also > remove similarly obvious stuff from package.use > > The as Dale said, manually edit your world file to remove everything that is > obviously X related. But first, verify that "emerge -avuND world" want to > merge nothing, otherwise --depclean will complain. > > Then the fun starts: > > emerge -a --depclean and let it do whatever it wants. > emerge -pvuNDt world and look closely at what X stuff it wants to pull in. > See if it's a dependency thing or a USE flag thing, and deal with it. > Eventually, emerge -pvuND world will not want to remerge anything, only > rebuild stuff due to changed USE flags. > --depclean again, rinse and repeat as many times as you have to (probably > lots). > > When you have done all this, and it will take a day or three, you will no > doubt realise that it was not worth the effort and you should have just > reinstalled without X, or fixed the underlying problem. > > Excising X is like downgrading to stable from unstable - not worth the effort. > > Sorry, but them's the breaks :-) > > >> When "world" is edited, should I leave make.conf be or do I also need >> to remove all X-related USE flags from there? >> > > Remove the flags from make.conf and also from package.use > > > >
And if you run into a snag, try this option with emerge: --with-bdeps y I actually have that in make.conf for mine. As mentioned by Alan, I really doubt this is going to do much if any good. After you did a emerge -e world, that is pretty much it. Let us know what blows up. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
