[gentoo-user] Re: removing X

"Michal 'vorner' Vaner" <vorner@×××.cz> writes:

> Hello
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, reader@×××××××.com wrote:

[...]

>> Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a
>> suitable way to get rid of all the clutter?
>
> You could remove the meta-package (the one that has size 0 and depends
> on everything, I guess it's xorg-x11) and then emerge --depclean. You
> probably should check, what everything that might want to remove, as it
> might get the things a bit wrong, sometimes.

That appears not to be possible here since I've already begun
uninstalling stuff the hard way.  I get this message from
  --depclean

I don't want to follow the advice offered there an run the newuse
world yet... I want to finish cleaning house first.

  Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to  
  the following required packages not being installed 

  x11-proto/kbproto required by x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1 x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5
  x11-proto/xextproto required by x11-libs/libXext-1.0.3
  x11-proto/xproto required by x11-libs/libXau-1.0.3 x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.2 x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.3 x11-libs/libICE-1.0.3 x11-libs/libSM-1.0.2 x11-libs/libXt-1.0.5 x11-libs/libXfont-1.2.7
  x11-proto/fontsproto required by x11-libs/libXfont-1.2.7
  >=dev-lang/python-2.5 required by sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc11
  >=x11-proto/xproto-7.0.6 required by x11-libs/libX11-1.1.1
  >=sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5 required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.7.1-r5

  Have you forgotten to run `emerge --update --newuse --deep world` prior to
  depclean?  It may be necessary to manually uninstall packages that no longer
  exist in the portage tree since it may not be possible to satisfy their
  dependencies.  Also, be aware of the --with-bdeps option that is documented
  in `man emerge`.

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