[gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

Hi,

I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A 
quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a 
ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me.

First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other 
gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which 
I do use. Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages, 
intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean' 
and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made.

Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in 
half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not 
understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and 
gnome-panel. 

I know how to fix this, that's not my question. My question is 
why on earth does an office suite depend on half a desktop 
environment? And is there a (relatively) easy way to get my 
system back to the state it would be in if I had always 
had -gnome in USE all along?

alan
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