On Wed, 31 May 2006 17:59:10 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > I emerged gnome and gdm. > It installed more than 100 other dependencies. Ok. It's fine. > Know I want to remove all gnome and its dependencies and come back to a > light system (without gnome and gdm and its dependencies). > How could I do? emerge -C gnome - this removes the meta-package emerge --depclean --pretend - this removes all unneeded packages, such as those that were dependencies of the gnome meta-package Read the warning from depclean. You should add -gnome to USE and do 'emerge -uavDN world' before running depclean. -- Neil Bothwick Feminism: the radical notion that women are people.