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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: remove gnome/systemd
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:23:05
Message-Id: op98kd$6fi$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd by Raffaele Belardi
1 On 12/09/17 18:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
2 > After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old
3 > workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be:
4 >
5 > 1. rebuild kernel with openRC support and install
6 > 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager
7 > 3. emerge -C systemd
8 > 4. change profile to generic desktop (non-Gnome)
9 > 5. emerge -N lxde-meta
10 > 6. emerge -N xdm openrc anacron sysklogd sysvinit
11 > 7. reboot
12 >
13 > I doubt it will be this easy... anything I'm missing, suggestions?
14
15 You can just keep systemd and only remove Gnome. Switch to another,
16 non-Gnome systemd profile and unmerge Gnome, then do a --depclean. Also
17 look in your world file to see if you have anything in there that
18 prevents depclean from removing it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: remove gnome/systemd Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com>