I don't know much about what each USE flag below actually does. All of them have been recommended to me by various elog messages and failed attempts at emerge. I'm trying to put all the flags emerge recommends for a particular package in /etc/portage/package.use now. Can any of the below flags be changed to decrease the size of my system?
On 07/17/11 16:28, James Wall wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I'm running into space issues (my / partition is at 99% of capacity) and >> I'd like some advice on what I can remove and how. My USE line in >> /etc/make.conf looks like this: >> >> USE="-setup declarative static-libs gallium moonlight semantic-desktop >> -kdeprefix -aqua policykit cdda vhosts automount flashblock jadetex >> vanilla additions mplayer -evo gentoo a52 -asterisk dbus ctype session >> zaptel ivtv -kerberos gphoto2 pcre mode-owner -firefox seamonkey >> -mozilla candy apache2 oss -apm alsa arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr >> crypt cups doc encode fortran f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm -gnome >> gstreamer -gtk -gtk2 imlib jpeg -kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg >> ncurses nls oggvorbis pam pdf lib png ppds python -qt quicktime readline >> -samba sasl sdl threads nntp spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype usb X >> xml xml2 xmms xv zlib x86 imap offensive java mysql examples mmx mmx2 >> perl divx4linux real mmxext audiofile nas snmp hal unicode guile slp >> tidy dvd dvdr dvdread flash glut new-login browserplugin nsplugin bzip2 >> win32codecs v4l v4l2 ruby sql lirc mythtv dvb ffmpeg userlocales php >> -debug jack jack-tempfs portaudio bash-completion bind-mysql joystick >> cli cgi ftp dba nptl nptlonly libclamav syslog jikes mpm-leader ithreads >> -nautilus tcl expat" >> >> and I'd like to completely remove both gnome and kde (except for kpat). >> I use xfce, so that shouldn't be a problem, right? I've tried emerge >> -C gnome and emerge -C kde, but the gnome line only unmerged the final >> gnome package, and the kde line didn't work at all (I'm thinking it's >> called kde-meta now), but unmerging kde-meta only unmerged the final kde >> package. How do I do this? >> >> > > I would recommend using emerge -p --depclean to see what can be yanked > off automatically. since you have the gnome and kde-meta packages > already uninstalled it should pull all the chunks out for you. >
