Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:02, Dale wrote:
>
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A
>>> quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a
>>> ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me.
>>>
>>> First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other
>>> gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which
>>> I do use. Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages,
>>> intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean'
>>> and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made.
>>>
>>> Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in
>>> half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not
>>> understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and
>>> gnome-panel.
>>>
>>> I know how to fix this, that's not my question. My question is
>>> why on earth does an office suite depend on half a desktop
>>> environment? And is there a (relatively) easy way to get my
>>> system back to the state it would be in if I had always
>>> had -gnome in USE all along?
>>>
>>> alan
>>>
>> If this helps any, I have never had Gnome installed and have this:
>>
>>> root@smoker / # equery list gnome
>>> [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ]
>>>  * installed packages
>>> [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm-2.6.1 (1.1)
>>> [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.6.1 (2.6)
>>> [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.6.0 (2.6)
>>> [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.6.0 (2.6)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-common-1.2.4-r4 (2)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.9 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (1)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 (1)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1 (2)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.14.1 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.14.0 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.12.1 (2.2)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.12.1 (2.2)
>>> [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.14.1 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.0 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 (0)
>>> [I--] [  ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.14.2 (0)
>>> root@smoker / #
>>>
>> My USE line is this:
>>
>>> USE="acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount browserplugin
>>> bzip2 cdr chroot crypt dbus doc dvd dvdr esd exif fdftk -firefox gaim
>>> gcj gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk hal hbci ipv6 java
>>> javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde mmx mp3 nsplugin ofx offensive
>>> opengl -oss postgres ppds qt3 qt4 samba scanner seamonkey sqlite sse
>>> syslog tcltk tiff tk truetype udev usb win32codecs wmf X xmms xml
>>> xprint yahoo 3dnow "
>>>
>> May be able to "cheat" a little and get rid of some more though.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
> With these USE flags in place I do not have gnome on my system:
>
> -eds -esd -gnome -gtk
>
> Proof:
> ================================================
> # equery l gnome
> [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> #
> ================================================
>

Cool.  I need to mark this one important so I can find it again.  Do you
notice anything missing like in OOo, Mozilla/Seamonkey or anything like
that??

Dale

:-)  :-)
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