From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GNFwl-0005D0-Fu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:37:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8CLaomi000329; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:36:50 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8CLW5le002870 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:32:05 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p46so1976818nfa for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:32:05 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=rklX+bJ8b52U592gTXNwQQmA4WQ7H90YVKKtuNlccKSmyMn4/TME/8rY4H2nrkH6sz7hoKt6q3jbGu7e1K9bLZlL2x60565WRUMaa7+wZPhTebXsEHwPW6yiisqZqxRnEkpRJ2TEZIUZJwp/R+wqVspI5FG1VXPGFU0A58gXsds= Received: by 10.48.210.20 with SMTP id i20mr10225978nfg; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m164-mp4.cvx3-c.bre.dial.ntli.net ( [62.255.104.164]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id o45sm5149476nfa.2006.09.12.14.31.48; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:32:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 22:32:45 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200609121301.10525.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <4506A1F0.7000004@vista-express.com> In-Reply-To: <4506A1F0.7000004@vista-express.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1294629.Je0axqcNil"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200609122233.53285.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c349a997-31e0-4e02-a5fc-174d9235cf53 X-Archives-Hash: ddefe1ec551836527c7bc040c43338b8 --nextPart1294629.Je0axqcNil Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:02, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > 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 > > If this helps any, I have never had Gnome installed and have this: > > root@smoker / # equery list gnome > > [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ] > > * installed packages > > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm-2.6.1 (1.1) > > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.6.1 (2.6) > > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.6.0 (2.6) > > [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.6.0 (2.6) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-common-1.2.4-r4 (2) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.9 (0) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (1) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 (0) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37 (0) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 (1) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1 (2) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.14.1 (0) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.14.0 (0) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.12.1 (2.2) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.12.1 (2.2) > > [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.14.1 (0) > > [I--] [ ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.0 (0) > > [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 (0) > > [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.14.2 (0) > > root@smoker / # > > My USE line is this: > > USE=3D"acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount browserplugin > > bzip2 cdr chroot crypt dbus doc dvd dvdr esd exif fdftk -firefox gaim > > gcj gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk hal hbci ipv6 java > > javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde mmx mp3 nsplugin ofx offensive > > opengl -oss postgres ppds qt3 qt4 samba scanner seamonkey sqlite sse > > syslog tcltk tiff tk truetype udev usb win32codecs wmf X xmms xml > > xprint yahoo 3dnow " > > May be able to "cheat" a little and get rid of some more though. > > Dale > > :-) :-) With these USE flags in place I do not have gnome on my system: =2Deds -esd -gnome -gtk=20 Proof: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D # equery l gnome [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ] * installed packages #=20 =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1294629.Je0axqcNil Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBFByfB5Fp0QerLYPcRAsZzAJ4uZuRMchF6wlLrBhF4iFalBYJY0wCffxjO 3K5dfmMz3gb+I99b8nt02lg= =1J48 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1294629.Je0axqcNil-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list