[gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Gregory SACRE]

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?


Thanks in advance!

Greg

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 15 June 2009 16:35:20 Gregory SACRE wrote:
> 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?


grep -i xorg /var/lib/portage/world

note the package names (probably only x11-base/xorg-x11)

emerge -avC <package_names>
emerge -a --depclean

rinse, repeat.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Fred.L]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Norman Rieß]

Gregory SACRE schrieb:
> 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?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Greg
>
>   
emerge -C xorg-x11 && emerge --depclean && revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote:
> 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

xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDs 
on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Fred.L]

> On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote:
>> 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
>
> xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDs
> on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11
>

Yes, I saw my mistake but it was to late the mail was already sent.
Sorry for that.

> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>

Fred.L

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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Gregory SACRE]

It works! Thanks!
I just had to have a close look at the output of depclean as it tryed
to remove "not essential" packages such as vixie-cron, or grub,
cronbase, or syslog-ng ;-)

I'm updating now and no more traces of xorg!

Greg

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Fred.L<raptor@drakonix.fr> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote:
>>> 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
>>
>> xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDs
>> on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11
>>
>
> Yes, I saw my mistake but it was to late the mail was already sent.
> Sorry for that.
>
>> --
>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>>
>>
>
> Fred.L
>
> =====================================
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> =====================================
>
>
>

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 15 June 2009 17:22:50 Gregory SACRE wrote:
> It works! Thanks!
> I just had to have a close look at the output of depclean as it tryed
> to remove "not essential" packages such as vixie-cron, or grub,
> cronbase, or syslog-ng ;-)

You want to put those back into world with

emerge -n <package_name>

Which won't recompile them (no need to...). Or you could just edit 
/var/lib/portage/world as root


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com




>
> I'm updating now and no more traces of xorg!
>
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Fred.L<raptor@drakonix.fr> wrote:
> >> On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote:
> >>> 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
> >>
> >> xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that
> >> DEPENDs on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11
> >
> > Yes, I saw my mistake but it was to late the mail was already sent.
> > Sorry for that.
> >
> >> --
> >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> >
> > Fred.L
> >
> > =====================================
> > * Webmaster at http://www.drakonix.fr *
> > =====================================