Am Dienstag, 17. Juli 2007 schrieb Samir Faci:

>    So, I have a gentoo install that's slowly evolved over the past 3 years
> or so years.  It's now so cluttered with packages, it's becoming
> ridiculous, especially for a headless server.  What I'd like to do is be
> able to remove all KDE/Gnome/X/gtk/qt/...etc out of the machine and not
> have it break the machine completely.

You've already recieved some answers how to do it with portage. Here's how you 
can do it with paludis:

1) revise your use flags (remove X, kde, ...)
2) export PALUDIS_OPTIONS="--dl-reinstall if-use-changed"
3) update world: paludis -i world
4) remove unneeded packages: paludis --uninstall-unused
5) remove all packages you don't want anymore:
   paludis --uninstall --with-unused-dependencies <pkg> ...
6) revdep-rebuild (make sure you have the paludis-enabled version).

HTH...

	Dirk