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From: "Fred.L" <raptor@××××××××.fr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:13
Message-Id: 0957191c1665a3cbc46010cbcea5c4f6.squirrel@www.drakonix.fr
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg? by Gregory SACRE
1 Hi,
2
3 > Hello all,
4 >
5 >
6 > I have a VM with Gentoo as guest and I don't know why, maybe I was
7 > lonely, but I tried to install X on the guest without needing it
8 > (maybe just to see how it looks to have X in X ;-)).
9 > The problem is that now, I sync'ed the guest and it wants to pull an
10 > update for X and all the drivers.
11 > Frankly, I don't want to spend dozen of minutes compiling the new X
12 > when I don't need it on a VM...
13 >
14 > So my question is: how do I remove X and all its components?
15 >
16
17 I think you could try this:
18 $ emerge --unmerge xorg-server
19
20 Then you run this to remove all xorg dependencies:
21 $ emerge -a --depclean
22
23 Or if you just don't want to upgrade xorg:
24 $ echo ">=x11-base/xorg-server-your.version.here" >> /etc/portage/package.mask
25
26 >
27 > Thanks in advance!
28 >
29 > Greg
30 >
31 >
32
33 Fred.L
34
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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>