On Tuesday 13 October 2009 21:04:54 Denis wrote: > Perhaps I should try this procedure on my home gentoo box first. > > Here are my USE flags: > > X aac aim alsa ao bash-completion bdf branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb > cdparanoia cdr cpudetection djvu emacs encode exif firefox flac > foomaticdb gif glut graphics gs gtk ieee1394 imagemagick imlib java > javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea lame latex ldap libnotify libwww > lm_sensors mad mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mplayer msn openal opengl > oss pdf plotutils png ppds preview-latex pstricks qt3support qt4 > quicktime rtc samba science sdl sensord smp sndfile spell sse sse2 > svga swat tcl tetex tiff tk truetype tta usb wavpack winbind wmp xcb xine > xml yahoo -dri -isdnlog -pppd
At a minum you'll need to remove X cairo firefox gtk motif opengl pdf qt3support qt4 truetype scb There will be others, that's just obvious ones from a quick scan through. Also remove similarly obvious stuff from package.use The as Dale said, manually edit your world file to remove everything that is obviously X related. But first, verify that "emerge -avuND world" want to merge nothing, otherwise --depclean will complain. Then the fun starts: emerge -a --depclean and let it do whatever it wants. emerge -pvuNDt world and look closely at what X stuff it wants to pull in. See if it's a dependency thing or a USE flag thing, and deal with it. Eventually, emerge -pvuND world will not want to remerge anything, only rebuild stuff due to changed USE flags. --depclean again, rinse and repeat as many times as you have to (probably lots). When you have done all this, and it will take a day or three, you will no doubt realise that it was not worth the effort and you should have just reinstalled without X, or fixed the underlying problem. Excising X is like downgrading to stable from unstable - not worth the effort. Sorry, but them's the breaks :-) > When "world" is edited, should I leave make.conf be or do I also need > to remove all X-related USE flags from there? Remove the flags from make.conf and also from package.use -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
