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Mark Knecht escribió: |
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> On 7/16/07, Samir Faci <samir.list@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Hi all, |
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>> So, I have a gentoo install that's slowly evolved over the past 3 |
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>> years |
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>> or so years. It's now so cluttered with packages, it's becoming |
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>> ridiculous, |
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>> especially for a headless server. What I'd like to do is be able to |
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>> remove |
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>> all KDE/Gnome/X/gtk/qt/...etc out of the machine and not have it |
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>> break the |
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>> machine completely. |
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>> Any suggestion on how to do go about this? At this stage, I'd like the |
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>> server to have the basic system build, LAMP, and Postfix. |
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>> If I start removing packages, then revdep complains about |
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>> dependencies and |
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>> ends pulling back the packages I had removed, same thing with world. I |
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>> globally removed all the X related flags I can think of. |
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>> Also, in the process of switching to a hardened profile, which is one |
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>> reason |
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>> why I wanted to clean up the install. |
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>> Thanks again, |
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>> Any help would be appreciated. |
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>> -- |
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>> Samir |
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> Hi Samir, |
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> You'll probably get some answers more detailed than mine but |
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> fundamentally it goes something like this: |
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> 1) First do and emerge -DuN world and make sure everything is up to date. |
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> 2) By hand then emerge -C everything (for instance) with gnome or kde |
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> in the package name. |
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> 3) Next do an emerge --depclean and let portage remove packages that |
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> were needed for gnome or kde but not required now |
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> 4) Do a revdep-rebuild and see what it wants to pull in. If it's |
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> trying to pull in something you don't think is necessary then do an |
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> emerge -pe --tree and look at why it's getting pulled in. Either |
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> remove what's causing it to get rebuilt or let it get pulled back in. |
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> At this point it's lather and repeat if necessary. |
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> I've done this a couple of times. It' works but be careful that you |
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> don't reboot during the process as something might be gone that's |
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> still necessary. |
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> Hope this helps, |
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> Mark |
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I'd proceed similar to this, but changing order: |
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1) Edit /var/lib/portage/world and unlist every unwanted package. |
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2) Edit /etc/make.conf and explicitly unset every use tag related to |
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packages you don't want in your system. |
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3) run emerge --update --deep --newuse --ask world |
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4) run emerge --depclean --ask |
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5) run revdep-rebuild |
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If you update your system before removing unwanted packages from world |
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file you'll waste time updating packages that will be uninstalled |
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afterwards (and big packages, must be said). This way you'll update only |
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what you'll keep. |
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Needless to say, it's always a good idea to back-up your system before |
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proceeding. |
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HTH, |
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Abraham |
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