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From: "Fred.L" <raptor@drakonix.fr>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:43:00 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0957191c1665a3cbc46010cbcea5c4f6.squirrel@www.drakonix.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e213dd40906150735s466fc362ueb9361bfa770de91@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

> Hello all,
>
>
> I have a VM with Gentoo as guest and I don't know why, maybe I was
> lonely, but I tried to install X on the guest without needing it
> (maybe just to see how it looks to have X in X ;-)).
> The problem is that now, I sync'ed the guest and it wants to pull an
> update for X and all the drivers.
> Frankly, I don't want to spend dozen of minutes compiling the new X
> when I don't need it on a VM...
>
> So my question is: how do I remove X and all its components?
>

I think you could try this:
$ emerge --unmerge xorg-server

Then you run this to remove all xorg dependencies:
$ emerge -a --depclean

Or if you just don't want to upgrade xorg:
$ echo ">=x11-base/xorg-server-your.version.here" >> /etc/portage/package.mask

>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Greg
>
>

Fred.L

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-06-15 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-15 14:35 [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg? Gregory SACRE
2009-06-15 14:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-15 14:43 ` Fred.L [this message]
2009-06-15 14:49   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-15 14:55     ` Fred.L
2009-06-15 15:22       ` Gregory SACRE
2009-06-15 15:24         ` Alan McKinnon
2009-06-15 14:43 ` Norman Rieß

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