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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:11:15
Message-Id: 4E235DAB.8020705@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Decrapifying my system by James Wall
1 I don't know much about what each USE flag below actually does. All of
2 them have been recommended to me by various elog messages and failed
3 attempts at emerge. I'm trying to put all the flags emerge recommends
4 for a particular package in /etc/portage/package.use now. Can any of
5 the below flags be changed to decrease the size of my system?
6
7 On 07/17/11 16:28, James Wall wrote:
8 > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> wrote:
9 >> I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and
10 >> I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. My USE line in
11 >> /etc/make.conf looks like this:
12 >>
13 >> USE="-setup declarative static-libs gallium moonlight semantic-desktop
14 >> -kdeprefix -aqua policykit cdda vhosts automount flashblock jadetex
15 >> vanilla additions mplayer -evo gentoo a52 -asterisk dbus ctype session
16 >> zaptel ivtv -kerberos gphoto2 pcre mode-owner -firefox seamonkey
17 >> -mozilla candy apache2 oss -apm alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr
18 >> crypt cups doc encode fortran f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm -gnome
19 >> gstreamer -gtk -gtk2 imlib jpeg -kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg
20 >> ncurses nls oggvorbis pam pdf lib png ppds python -qt quicktime readline
21 >> -samba sasl sdl threads nntp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb X
22 >> xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86 imap offensive java mysql examples mmx mmx2
23 >> perl divx4linux real mmxext audiofile nas snmp hal unicode guile slp
24 >> tidy dvd dvdr dvdread flash glut new-login browserplugin nsplugin bzip2
25 >> win32codecs v4l v4l2 ruby sql lirc mythtv dvb ffmpeg userlocales php
26 >> -debug jack jack-tempfs portaudio bash-completion bind-mysql joystick
27 >> cli cgi ftp dba nptl nptlonly libclamav syslog jikes mpm-leader ithreads
28 >> -nautilus tcl expat"
29 >>
30 >> and I'd like to completely remove both gnome and kde (except for kpat).
31 >> I use xfce, so that shouldn't be a problem, right? I've tried emerge
32 >> -C gnome and emerge -C kde, but the gnome line only unmerged the final
33 >> gnome package, and the kde line didn't work at all (I'm thinking it's
34 >> called kde-meta now), but unmerging kde-meta only unmerged the final kde
35 >> package. How do I do this?
36 >>
37 >>
38 >
39 > I would recommend using emerge -p --depclean to see what can be yanked
40 > off automatically. since you have the gnome and kde-meta packages
41 > already uninstalled it should pull all the chunks out for you.
42 >