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On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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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. |
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gimp doesn't require the gtk use flag globally. The only thing it needs to be |
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compiled with the gtk use flag is app-text/poppler-bindings. The only |
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packages that I have compiled with gtk are app-text/poppler-bindings, |
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app-editors/gvim and net-analyzer/wireshark. |
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> 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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An easier approach here might be to just edit /var/lib/portage/world manually |
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and remove the gnome etc. apps that you are no longer interested in and let |
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emerge --depclean -va do it's job... |
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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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Add "-eds" to your use flags. openoffice doesn't wan't a single gnome app on |
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my computer so if it still wants some it because of some use flag... |
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Bo Andresen |
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