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From: Ian Zimmerman <itz@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge @system
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2016 20:12:51
Message-Id: 20160829200946.24916.2ACC8859@matica.foolinux.mooo.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @system by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2016-08-29 20:08, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > Surely the addition of X, and maybe kde or gnome, to your USE flags is
4 > what is causing so many packages to be pulled in by @system.
5 >
6 > I found something similar when building a new system recently, @system
7 > pulled in X and a shedload of dependencies. Switching to a non-desktop
8 > profile meant far fewer packages were needed to get a basic system.
9
10 Can you safely do this (change profile) on an existing system, and how?
11 Will it affect @world, and more generally, will it cause the next update
12 do work that would otherwise not be done?
13
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge @system Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>