From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGDWE-0000C2-FN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:50:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 82225E026E; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f224.google.com (mail-ew0-f224.google.com [209.85.219.224]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42E75E026E for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so13189ewy.34 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:50:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=5kswt0CIIA19Lr4xKvKJ1GOhqULODlBPxIr2TIwMGKo=; b=huQkCKBzsWfks8CN5gvpYBKBAmgFi3S4Zu+QP0d/bd//OVqI9ZuGdy5f3d2xANFb+F R1ccnfgIVOG/9plbrDQ7S6ThQd0ATg6jFXozu5Qjn9d3fmSWGYA0Tx6GRB+H47bvcecR fL4XJiaacNoPyKbTTZaZhitRNHYxhawHiPNX4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=eNbriiGL/H6vRW3QmDql6P4w03dzdvI90R+9jtQMiodHRyBL5FoqDVDiFztPuFEYvt x6u/nug8GuALRTDtb71Zeo9/FXjxE17heaHT+p0WGxVH9YoGJXyyjSc+c9neMvee4IXE DTk0Cvo4qIY0hkEQErutDZ6rLimdkwtsGtYWg= Received: by 10.210.105.3 with SMTP id d3mr4732804ebc.43.1245077439593; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:50:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 28sm110074eye.6.2009.06.15.07.50.38 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:50:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg? Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:49:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <5e213dd40906150735s466fc362ueb9361bfa770de91@mail.gmail.com> <0957191c1665a3cbc46010cbcea5c4f6.squirrel@www.drakonix.fr> In-Reply-To: <0957191c1665a3cbc46010cbcea5c4f6.squirrel@www.drakonix.fr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906151649.04728.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 6a0c713e-c1e6-47d0-b49f-87da6def3993 X-Archives-Hash: 666e0aba4f5f4d20776a48cb185b1b5a On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote: > Hi, > > > Hello all, > > > > > > I have a VM with Gentoo as guest and I don't know why, maybe I was > > lonely, but I tried to install X on the guest without needing it > > (maybe just to see how it looks to have X in X ;-)). > > The problem is that now, I sync'ed the guest and it wants to pull an > > update for X and all the drivers. > > Frankly, I don't want to spend dozen of minutes compiling the new X > > when I don't need it on a VM... > > > > So my question is: how do I remove X and all its components? > > I think you could try this: > $ emerge --unmerge xorg-server xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDs on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11 -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com