Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 15 June 2009 17:22:50 Gregory SACRE wrote:
> It works! Thanks!
> I just had to have a close look at the output of depclean as it tryed
> to remove "not essential" packages such as vixie-cron, or grub,
> cronbase, or syslog-ng ;-)

You want to put those back into world with

emerge -n <package_name>

Which won't recompile them (no need to...). Or you could just edit 
/var/lib/portage/world as root


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com




>
> I'm updating now and no more traces of xorg!
>
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Fred.L<raptor@××××××××.fr> wrote:
> >> On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> > Hello all,
> >>> >
> >>> >
> >>> > I have a VM with Gentoo as guest and I don't know why, maybe I was
> >>> > lonely, but I tried to install X on the guest without needing it
> >>> > (maybe just to see how it looks to have X in X ;-)).
> >>> > The problem is that now, I sync'ed the guest and it wants to pull an
> >>> > update for X and all the drivers.
> >>> > Frankly, I don't want to spend dozen of minutes compiling the new X
> >>> > when I don't need it on a VM...
> >>> >
> >>> > So my question is: how do I remove X and all its components?
> >>>
> >>> I think you could try this:
> >>> $ emerge --unmerge xorg-server
> >>
> >> xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that
> >> DEPENDs on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11
> >
> > Yes, I saw my mistake but it was to late the mail was already sent.
> > Sorry for that.
> >
> >> --
> >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> >
> > Fred.L
> >
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