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* Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?
  @ 2009-06-15 14:42 99% ` Alan McKinnon
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From: Alan McKinnon @ 2009-06-15 14:42 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Monday 15 June 2009 16:35:20 Gregory SACRE wrote:
> 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?


grep -i xorg /var/lib/portage/world

note the package names (probably only x11-base/xorg-x11)

emerge -avC <package_names>
emerge -a --depclean

rinse, repeat.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com



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