On Monday 15 June 2009 17:22:50 Gregory SACRE wrote: > It works! Thanks! > I just had to have a close look at the output of depclean as it tryed > to remove "not essential" packages such as vixie-cron, or grub, > cronbase, or syslog-ng ;-)
You want to put those back into world with emerge -n <package_name> Which won't recompile them (no need to...). Or you could just edit /var/lib/portage/world as root -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > I'm updating now and no more traces of xorg! > > Greg > > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Fred.L<rap...@drakonix.fr> wrote: > >> On Monday 15 June 2009 16:43:00 Fred.L wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> > Hello all, > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > I have a VM with Gentoo as guest and I don't know why, maybe I was > >>> > lonely, but I tried to install X on the guest without needing it > >>> > (maybe just to see how it looks to have X in X ;-)). > >>> > The problem is that now, I sync'ed the guest and it wants to pull an > >>> > update for X and all the drivers. > >>> > Frankly, I don't want to spend dozen of minutes compiling the new X > >>> > when I don't need it on a VM... > >>> > > >>> > So my question is: how do I remove X and all its components? > >>> > >>> I think you could try this: > >>> $ emerge --unmerge xorg-server > >> > >> xorg-server is usually not in world. xorg-x11 is a meta package that > >> DEPENDs on xorg-server, the OP should unmerge xorg-x11 > > > > Yes, I saw my mistake but it was to late the mail was already sent. > > Sorry for that. > > > >> -- > >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > > > > Fred.L > > > > ===================================== > > * Webmaster at http://www.drakonix.fr * > > =====================================
