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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A |
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> quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a |
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> ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. |
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> First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other |
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> gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which |
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> I do use. Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages, |
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> intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean' |
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> and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made. |
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> Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in |
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> half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not |
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> understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and |
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> gnome-panel. |
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> I know how to fix this, that's not my question. My question is |
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> why on earth does an office suite depend on half a desktop |
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> environment? And is there a (relatively) easy way to get my |
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> system back to the state it would be in if I had always |
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> had -gnome in USE all along? |
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> alan |
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If this helps any, I have never had Gnome installed and have this: |
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> root@smoker / # equery list gnome |
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> [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ] |
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> * installed packages |
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> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm-2.6.1 (1.1) |
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> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.6.1 (2.6) |
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> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.6.0 (2.6) |
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> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.6.0 (2.6) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-common-1.2.4-r4 (2) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.9 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (1) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 (1) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1 (2) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.14.1 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.14.0 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.12.1 (2.2) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.12.1 (2.2) |
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> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.14.1 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.0 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 (0) |
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> [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.14.2 (0) |
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> root@smoker / # |
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My USE line is this: |
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> USE="acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount browserplugin |
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> bzip2 cdr chroot crypt dbus doc dvd dvdr esd exif fdftk -firefox gaim |
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> gcj gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk hal hbci ipv6 java |
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> javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde mmx mp3 nsplugin ofx offensive |
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> opengl -oss postgres ppds qt3 qt4 samba scanner seamonkey sqlite sse |
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> syslog tcltk tiff tk truetype udev usb win32codecs wmf X xmms xml |
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> xprint yahoo 3dnow " |
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May be able to "cheat" a little and get rid of some more though. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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