Ernie Schroder schreef: > I've been trying to get rid of gnome. > I have done > # emerge -C gnome-icon-theme libgnomeui libbonoboui gconf after finding the > first gnome packages wanted orbit, which I had already removed
That's all very well and good (leaving aside other packages-- like firefox, for example-- that might be dependent on the packages you uninstalled), but how did you install gnome in the first place? Assuming that you did emerge gnome or emerge gnome-light the correct procedure would be to: 1. disable the "gnome" USE flag (in /etc/make.conf; remove any lines in /etc/portage/package.use that might say "gnome") 2. do an emerge -uaDtNv world to recompile all packages previously compiled with optional gnome support without such support) 3. unmerge gnome(-light) (this will not remove any packages, just the meta-package, but is essential for the next step 4. do an emerge depclean -p to see what gnome packages are installed that no longer are required by any currently installed package 4a. If any of the packages that appear in the depclean -p output are packages you want to keep, emerge them separately to put them in your world file; 5. If you don't want any of the packages, then do an emerge depclean (without the -p) to remove the packages listed in the previous output 6. do a revdep-rebuild -p to confirm that you didn't break anything by removing the previous packages. That should about cover it. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
