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

[Daniel Pielmeier]

Thank you,

i will try this, but i have emerged the  gnome-light meta-package + some
other gnome packages witch are part of the gnome meta-package, but i did
not remember all of them. So i thought there is a simple way to remove
all of them.

When i remove the gnome light meta-package, will the additional packages
i have installed become orphaned too, i am not sure if they will so i
probably have to remove them manually

I did not use any of the gnome packages like evolution or totem before,
so i started to think the only thing i need is a nice comfortable and
custumizable windowmanger and gnome even gnome-light is to big for me.

Regards Daniel

Holly Bostick schrieb:
> 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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