Re: [gentoo-user] How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde

[Mick]

On Saturday 18 Feb 2017 22:05:01 Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:57:52PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote
>
> > Any advice about slick ways of getting fully updated but dumping kde
> > on the way.
>
>   *IMPORTANT* KDE is obscene about dependancies.  E.g. when a
> lightweight pdf-reader was phased out, I looked at various options
> including okular.  It's an "itty-bitty-little-applet"... that seems to
> pull in 90% of KDE as dependancies.  If you want to get rid of KDE, you
> must be prepared to dump every last little KDE app/applet.  It's an
> all-or-nothing situation.  Sorry.
>
> 1) "eselect profile list" and switch to a basic non-KDE profile of your
> choice.
>
> 2) "emerge gentoolkit" if not already present.
>
> 3) "cat /var/lib/portage/world" and see what KDE stuff you have.
>
> 4) Unmerge (i.e. "emerge --unmerge) obvious KDE-related stuff that you
> find in world.
>
> 5) "emerge --depclean" (May not help if you've done "emerge --sync" and
> not fully updated).
>
>    The next 3 steps are going to be repeated several times
>
> 6) "emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world"
>
> 7) You'll probably see portage try to pull KDE back in.  For each lib
> "fu-bar/foobar" that portage tries to pull in do "equery d fu-bar/foobar"
> and manually unmerge whatever it finds.  (Note: gentoolkit provides the
> equery tool).
>
> 8) GOTO 6 (until portage stops trying to pull in KDE stuff).

As Walter indicates above, the problem is many every day desktop applications 
have either KDE or Gnome dependencies.  Depending on your needs you may find 
it inevitable that one or the other desktop environment with its mega-suite of 
packages will be pulled in.
-- 
Regards,
Mick