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On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:18:44 -0500, Samir Faci wrote: |
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> So, I have a gentoo install that's slowly evolved over the past 3 |
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> years or so years. It's now so cluttered with packages, it's becoming |
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> ridiculous, especially for a headless server. What I'd like to do is |
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> be able to remove all KDE/Gnome/X/gtk/qt/...etc out of the machine and |
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> not have it break the machine completely. |
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After removing the USE flags, you need to run "emerge -uavDN world" to |
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ensure that everything is built without the optional X support. Then run |
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emerge --depclean -p. you could also edit your world file and remove any |
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packages in there that you no longer need, or that are only installed as |
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dependencies of other packages (these shouldn't be there in the first |
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place, but it's easy to forget to use --oneshot at some time). |
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> If I start removing packages, then revdep complains about dependencies |
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> and ends pulling back the packages I had removed, same thing with |
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> world. I globally removed all the X related flags I can think of. |
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Start removing packages? If you only take pout some of what --depclean |
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wants to remove, then revdep-rebuild is likely to want to reinstate some, |
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because other packages still installed, but on the depclean list, need |
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them. Unlike emerge, revdep-rebuild does not consider your world file or |
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USE flags, but looks at the installed files and what they need, so you |
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must complete depclean before running revdep-rebuild. |
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Check the output of merge --depclean -p before removing anything, don't |
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remove anything that looks critical without checking first. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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The box said 'needs Win95 or better' so I bought an Amiga. |
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