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From: Gregory SACRE <gregory.sacre@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg?
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:23:12
Message-Id: 5e213dd40906150822p15ae3999ke1853ebf9dcec306@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg? by "Fred.L"
1 It works! Thanks!
2 I just had to have a close look at the output of depclean as it tryed
3 to remove "not essential" packages such as vixie-cron, or grub,
4 cronbase, or syslog-ng ;-)
5
6 I'm updating now and no more traces of xorg!
7
8 Greg
9
10 On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Fred.L<raptor@××××××××.fr> wrote:
11 >
12 >> On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote:
13 >>> Hi,
14 >>>
15 >>> > Hello all,
16 >>> >
17 >>> >
18 >>> > I have a VM with Gentoo as guest and I don't know why, maybe I was
19 >>> > lonely, but I tried to install X on the guest without needing it
20 >>> > (maybe just to see how it looks to have X in X ;-)).
21 >>> > The problem is that now, I sync'ed the guest and it wants to pull an
22 >>> > update for X and all the drivers.
23 >>> > Frankly, I don't want to spend dozen of minutes compiling the new X
24 >>> > when I don't need it on a VM...
25 >>> >
26 >>> > So my question is: how do I remove X and all its components?
27 >>>
28 >>> I think you could try this:
29 >>> $ emerge --unmerge xorg-server
30 >>
31 >> xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that DEPENDs
32 >> on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11
33 >>
34 >
35 > Yes, I saw my mistake but it was to late the mail was already sent.
36 > Sorry for that.
37 >
38 >> --
39 >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
40 >>
41 >>
42 >
43 > Fred.L
44 >
45 > =====================================
46 > * Webmaster at http://www.drakonix.fr *
47 > =====================================
48 >
49 >
50 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Howto remove Xorg? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>