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From: "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@zlin.dk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:12:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609121312.34317.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200609121301.10525.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>

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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:01, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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.

gimp doesn't require the gtk use flag globally. The only thing it needs to be 
compiled with the gtk use flag is app-text/poppler-bindings. The only 
packages that I have compiled with gtk are app-text/poppler-bindings, 
app-editors/gvim and net-analyzer/wireshark.

> 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.

An easier approach here might be to just edit /var/lib/portage/world manually 
and remove the gnome etc. apps that you are no longer interested in and let 
emerge --depclean -va do it's job...

> 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.

Add "-eds" to your use flags. openoffice doesn't wan't a single gnome app on 
my computer so if it still wants some it because of some use flag...

-- 
Bo Andresen

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-12 11:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-12 11:01 [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system Alan McKinnon
2006-09-12 11:12 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen [this message]
2006-09-12 11:36   ` Alan McKinnon
2006-09-12 11:12 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-09-12 11:36 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-09-12 11:33   ` Alan McKinnon
     [not found]     ` <20060912115018.GB4887@sympatico.ca>
2006-09-12 11:54       ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-09-12 13:37         ` Philip Webb
2006-09-12 14:05           ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2006-09-12 12:02 ` Dale
2006-09-12 21:32   ` Mick
2006-09-13  4:27     ` Dale
2006-09-13  7:11       ` Alan McKinnon
2006-09-13 20:01       ` Mick
2006-09-14  9:27         ` Dale

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