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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 15:38:50
Message-Id: 86tw7oeuto.fsf@reader.local.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to dump kde gracefully in favor of lxde by Walter Dnes
1 "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> writes:
2
3 [...]
4
5 > 1) "eselect profile list" and switch to a basic non-KDE profile of your
6 > choice.
7
8 Moved from:
9
10 default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop *
11
12 to
13
14 default/linux/amd64/13.0 *
15
16 >
17 > 2) "emerge gentoolkit" if not already present.
18 >
19 > 3) "cat /var/lib/portage/world" and see what KDE stuff you have.
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21 No kde in there
22
23 > 4) Unmerge (i.e. "emerge --unmerge) obvious KDE-related stuff that you
24 > find in world.
25
26 got that accomplished and and several more pkgs that were causing blocks
27
28
29 > 5) "emerge --depclean" (May not help if you've done "emerge --sync" and
30 > not fully updated).
31 >
32
33 Nothing gets listed there
34
35 > The next 3 steps are going to be repeated several times
36 >
37 > 6) "emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world"
38 >
39 > 7) You'll probably see portage try to pull KDE back in. For each lib
40 > "fu-bar/foobar" that portage tries to pull in do "equery d fu-bar/foobar"
41 > and manually unmerge whatever it finds. (Note: gentoolkit provides the
42 > equery tool).
43 > 8) GOTO 6 (until portage stops trying to pull in KDE stuff).
44
45 I'm still working on this, but wanted to thank you for your input.
46 I like help that has an outline of how to go at something.
47
48 Very helpful.. and I seem to be close to getting this cleaned up.