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On Monday 15 June 2009 16:35:20 Gregory SACRE wrote: |
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> Hello all, |
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> I have a VM with Gentoo as guest and I don't know why, maybe I was |
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> lonely, but I tried to install X on the guest without needing it |
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> (maybe just to see how it looks to have X in X ;-)). |
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> The problem is that now, I sync'ed the guest and it wants to pull an |
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> update for X and all the drivers. |
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> Frankly, I don't want to spend dozen of minutes compiling the new X |
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> when I don't need it on a VM... |
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> So my question is: how do I remove X and all its components? |
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grep -i xorg /var/lib/portage/world |
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note the package names (probably only x11-base/xorg-x11) |
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emerge -avC <package_names> |
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emerge -a --depclean |
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rinse, repeat. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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