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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] uninstall a bunch
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:55:52
Message-Id: 20060531173241.594d240c@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] uninstall a bunch by Rakotomandimby Mihamina
1 On Wed, 31 May 2006 17:59:10 +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote:
2
3 > I emerged gnome and gdm.
4 > It installed more than 100 other dependencies. Ok. It's fine.
5 > Know I want to remove all gnome and its dependencies and come back to a
6 > light system (without gnome and gdm and its dependencies).
7 > How could I do?
8
9 emerge -C gnome - this removes the meta-package
10
11 emerge --depclean --pretend - this removes all unneeded packages, such as
12 those that were dependencies of the gnome meta-package Read the warning
13 from depclean.
14
15 You should add -gnome to USE and do 'emerge -uavDN world' before running
16 depclean.
17
18
19 --
20 Neil Bothwick
21
22 Feminism: the radical notion that women are people.

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