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Hi, |
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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. 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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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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I know how to fix this, that's not my question. My question is |
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why on earth does an office suite depend on half a desktop |
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environment? And is there a (relatively) easy way to get my |
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system back to the state it would be in if I had always |
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had -gnome in USE all along? |
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alan |
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