On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A > quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a > ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. > > First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other > gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which > I do use.
gimp doesn't require the gtk use flag globally. The only thing it needs to be compiled with the gtk use flag is app-text/poppler-bindings. The only packages that I have compiled with gtk are app-text/poppler-bindings, app-editors/gvim and net-analyzer/wireshark. > Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages, > intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean' > and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made. An easier approach here might be to just edit /var/lib/portage/world manually and remove the gnome etc. apps that you are no longer interested in and let emerge --depclean -va do it's job... > Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in > half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not > understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and > gnome-panel. Add "-eds" to your use flags. openoffice doesn't wan't a single gnome app on my computer so if it still wants some it because of some use flag... -- Bo Andresen
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