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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:49:04 +0200
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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