Re: [gentoo-user] Purging Gnome from the system

[Mick]

On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:02, Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A
> > quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a
> > ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me.
> >
> > First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other
> > gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which
> > I do use. Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages,
> > intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean'
> > and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made.
> >
> > Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in
> > half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not
> > understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and
> > gnome-panel.
> >
> > I know how to fix this, that's not my question. My question is
> > why on earth does an office suite depend on half a desktop
> > environment? And is there a (relatively) easy way to get my
> > system back to the state it would be in if I had always
> > had -gnome in USE all along?
> >
> > alan
>
> If this helps any, I have never had Gnome installed and have this:
> > root@smoker / # equery list gnome
> > [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ]
> >  * installed packages
> > [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm-2.6.1 (1.1)
> > [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.6.1 (2.6)
> > [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.6.0 (2.6)
> > [I--] [  ] dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.6.0 (2.6)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-common-1.2.4-r4 (2)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.9 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (1)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 (1)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1 (2)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.14.1 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.14.0 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.12.1 (2.2)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.12.1 (2.2)
> > [I--] [  ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.14.1 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.0 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 (0)
> > [I--] [  ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.14.2 (0)
> > root@smoker / #
>
> My USE line is this:
> > USE="acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount browserplugin
> > bzip2 cdr chroot crypt dbus doc dvd dvdr esd exif fdftk -firefox gaim
> > gcj gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk hal hbci ipv6 java
> > javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde mmx mp3 nsplugin ofx offensive
> > opengl -oss postgres ppds qt3 qt4 samba scanner seamonkey sqlite sse
> > syslog tcltk tiff tk truetype udev usb win32codecs wmf X xmms xml
> > xprint yahoo 3dnow "
>
> May be able to "cheat" a little and get rid of some more though.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
With these USE flags in place I do not have gnome on my system:

-eds -esd -gnome -gtk 

Proof:
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# equery l gnome
[ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ]
 * installed packages
# 
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Regards,
Mick