Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

[Dale <teendale@vista-express.com>]

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="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

:-)  :-)
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