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On 18:20 Mon 24 Dec , reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> writes: |
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> > On 2007-12-24, reader@×××××××.com <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now |
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> >> going to see action as a semi-DMZ. |
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> > That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a |
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> > faster and easier to wipe the disk and install from scratch. |
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> I would have done that without hesitation had it not been for the fact |
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> that this installation is a vm guest on winXP and I had a heck of a |
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> time getting it to work with gentoo. |
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> But as it turned out it wasn't all that hard. Mainly because it was |
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> kind of a basic installation even though it had X and KDE desktop. |
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> The fact that emerge can swallow giant size lists of stuff to |
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> uninstall was a big bonus. I didn't go over 86 on cmdline and just |
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> settled for doing it multiple times, but I think it would have |
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> swallowed more if I had. |
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Something to remember for the future: |
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You can delete entries in the world file |
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Personally, I find that faster than going through and finding what is |
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already installed, and doing the uninstall the long way. emerge --tree |
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should help some, as well, but for a basic install (<30 packages in |
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world), deleting the entries should be the fastest way, followed by an |
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emerge --depclean. |
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