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On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to |
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> see action as a semi-DMZ. |
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> What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. |
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> Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears |
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> to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. |
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> x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. |
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> emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it |
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> wrong. |
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> Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a |
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> suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? |
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You could remove the meta-package (the one that has size 0 and depends |
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on everything, I guess it's xorg-x11) and then emerge --depclean. You |
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probably should check, what everything that might want to remove, as it |
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might get the things a bit wrong, sometimes. |
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-- |
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When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. |
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-- Gen. C. Abrams |
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Michal 'vorner' Vaner |
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