Daniel Pielmeier schreef: > hello all, > > i want to test some other windowmanagers and if i find one that > satisfies me i want to switch from the gnome-desktop to this > windowmanager. So how can i remove all gnome packages. Is it save to > remove all gnome-base and gnome-extra packages and run "emerge > depclean" and "revdep-rebuild".
A better way would be to emerge -C gnome(-light) to unmerge the meta-package you installed (either gnome or gnome-light; this will not unmerge any packages, just the meta-package, but it will orphan all the dependent programs that were installed by the meta-package, which is what you want), then run emerge depclean -p to show the now-orphaned dependencies of those meta-packages, emerge -C(av) the ones you know you don't want (since you might, for example, want to keep Evolution, if you use it, or Totem or whatever; just because you don't use the GNOME desktop doesn't mean you have to stop using every GNOME package you might enjoy, even under another WM), emerge (-av) any of the packages that you may want to keep (to get them into your world file) run emerge depclean -p again to confirm that you got rid of everything you wanted gone, if so, you're done, if not, rinse and repeat. Don't really know why a revdep-rebuild would be necessary, but it doesn't hurt to do one (with -p first). And of course, you don't necessarily have to remove GNOME at all, just because you use another WM/DE (unless you have a disk space issue or something). Suppose your other WM/DE breaks? It can be useful to have a "spare" around so that you have something to login to, if you feel more comfortable inside a GUI. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
