[gentoo-amd64] How to remove gnome completely

[gentoo-amd64] How to remove gnome completely

[Mark Haney]

This is killing me, I can't get GNOME removed from one of my servers. 
I've pulled it from make.conf, I've removed all packages that has a USE 
flag of gnome, gtk, gtk2 and  I still get the gnome packages listed when 
I try to do an emerge -upDN world.  I don't see any packages left that 
have any gnome dependencies.

Am I missing something somewhere?  Anyone know a way to fix this problem?

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Mark Haney
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to remove gnome completely

[Arttu V.]

On 11/10/08, Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> This is killing me, I can't get GNOME removed from one of my servers. I've
> pulled it from make.conf, I've removed all packages that has a USE flag of
> gnome, gtk, gtk2 and  I still get the gnome packages listed when I try to do
> an emerge -upDN world.  I don't see any packages left that have any gnome
> dependencies.
>
>  Am I missing something somewhere?  Anyone know a way to fix this problem?

I have no specific solution, but some generic things I didn't catch there:

- place -gnome in USE in make.conf if you really really don't need it
- check your profile so that it is not a desktop profile which might
have gnome enabled
- see what pulls the gnome stuff in: "emerge -pvuDN --tree world"

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Arttu V.

Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to remove gnome completely

[Mark Knecht]

emerge -epv --tree gnome

You may be getting some part of it pulled in because some old package
no longer needed by make.conf is still on the system and emerge is
trying to satisfy dependencies for those packages. Have you run a
clean pass at

emerge -DuN world
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild
eix-test-obsolete

and made sure the machine is really in the state you want it in?

Hope this helps,
Mark

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> This is killing me, I can't get GNOME removed from one of my servers. I've
> pulled it from make.conf, I've removed all packages that has a USE flag of
> gnome, gtk, gtk2 and  I still get the gnome packages listed when I try to do
> an emerge -upDN world.  I don't see any packages left that have any gnome
> dependencies.
>
> Am I missing something somewhere?  Anyone know a way to fix this problem?
>
> --
> Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione
> quadraturae circuli
>
> Mark Haney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> ERC Broadband
> (828) 350-2415
>
> Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
>
>

[gentoo-amd64] Re: How to remove gnome completely

[Duncan]

"Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
4918A0DE.4040602@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Mon, 10 Nov 2008
16:00:14 -0500:

> This is killing me, I can't get GNOME removed from one of my servers.
> I've pulled it from make.conf, I've removed all packages that has a USE
> flag of gnome, gtk, gtk2 and  I still get the gnome packages listed when
> I try to do an emerge -upDN world.  I don't see any packages left that
> have any gnome dependencies.
> 
> Am I missing something somewhere?  Anyone know a way to fix this
> problem?

Pulled from your world file, you mean?

equery depends <pkg>

will give you a listing of what portage thinks is pulling in that 
package.  When that returns nothing, if it's not in world itself, an 
emerge --pretend --depclean should offer to remove it.

As Mark suggested, a revdep-rebuild is a good idea too.  I'd suggest 
running it before the --depclean to ensure your system is health then 
(you can ignore any gnome packages in that run), and again after the --
depclean to ensure it's still healthy.

So:

emerge -NuD world (world and system both if on portage 2.2)
revdep-rebuild
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild

is what I'd try, in that order, of course using -p or -a first, where 
appropriate.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] How to remove gnome completely

[Mark Haney]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> emerge -epv --tree gnome
> 
> You may be getting some part of it pulled in because some old package
> no longer needed by make.conf is still on the system and emerge is
> trying to satisfy dependencies for those packages. Have you run a
> clean pass at
> 
> emerge -DuN world
> emerge --depclean
> revdep-rebuild
> eix-test-obsolete
> 
> and made sure the machine is really in the state you want it in?

The --tree command is perfect.  It showed I finally managed to get it 
clean.  This box is a server and when I first installed it I left Gnome 
on it just in case.  Now, I don't need it, so I can safely get rid of 
it.  Thanks for all the suggestions.




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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415

Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support