Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove gnome complete

[Holly Bostick]

Daniel Pielmeier schreef:
> hello all,
>
> i want to test some other windowmanagers and if i find one that
> satisfies me i want to switch from the gnome-desktop to this
> windowmanager. So how can i remove all gnome packages. Is it save to
>  remove all gnome-base and gnome-extra packages and run "emerge
> depclean" and "revdep-rebuild".

A better way would be to

emerge -C gnome(-light)

to unmerge the meta-package you installed (either gnome or gnome-light;
this will not unmerge any packages, just the meta-package, but it will
orphan all the dependent programs that were installed by the
meta-package, which is what you want),

then run emerge depclean -p to show the now-orphaned dependencies of
those meta-packages,

emerge -C(av) the ones you know you don't want (since you might, for
example, want to keep Evolution, if you use it, or Totem or whatever;
just because you don't use the GNOME desktop doesn't mean you have to
stop using every GNOME package you might enjoy, even under another WM),

emerge (-av) any of the packages that you may want to keep (to get them
into your world file)

run emerge depclean -p again to confirm that you got rid of everything
you wanted gone, if so, you're done, if not, rinse and repeat.

Don't really know why a revdep-rebuild would be necessary, but it
doesn't hurt to do one (with -p first).

And of course, you don't necessarily have to remove GNOME at all, just
because you use another WM/DE (unless you have a disk space issue or
something). Suppose your other WM/DE breaks? It can be useful to have a
"spare" around so that you have something to login to, if you feel more
comfortable inside a GUI.

HTH,
Holly
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