On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 18:31 +0200, Nils Freydank wrote: > Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, 17:55:22 CEST schrieb Raffaele > Belardi: > > After several months of Gnome3 I decided it is too heavy for my old > > workstation and would like to go back to LXDE. The flow could be: > > > > 1. rebuild kernel with openRC support and install > > 2. emerge -C gnome networkmanager > > 3. emerge -C systemd > > 4. change profile to generic desktop (non-Gnome) > > 5. emerge -N lxde-meta > > 6. emerge -N xdm openrc anacron sysklogd sysvinit > > 7. reboot > > > > I doubt it will be this easy... anything I'm missing, suggestions? > > Hi, I’d run it a bit differently: > - change profile > - force-remove gnome (emerge -aC) > - double checking USE flags and updating @world as usual > - cleanup (emerge --ask --verbose --clean)
Isn't cleanup better performed by emerge --depclean? Won't emerge --depclean be confused if I change profile before running it? I'd expect it to check the USE flags before deciding to remove a package so if I change profile beforehand it will base decision on wrong assumptions. But I'm not at all sure about this, does anybody have an opinion? > - install services that aren’t already installed as a dep (maybe > anacron or ntpd/chrony) > - Adding the services to appropriate runlevels (e.g. rc-update add > xdm default) > > - If necessary, replacing udev with eudev. I don’t remember if it got > changed automatically > a while ago on one of my systems due the switch. > > If you didn’t explicitly removed OpenRC you have it already > installed, (removal is possible though), > and sysvinit gets pulled in by OpenRC ;-) > > BTW, I personally like elogind (a standalone "cut off" of systemd- > logind) and can suggest it > as a surrogate for consolekit2. Support by the upstream is incredible > fast. I'll check this. I confess consolekit is one of those packages that got installed somehow but I never did any configuration or study about it (i.e. I don't know why it's there...) > > Have fun :) > Nils > > thanks, > > > > raffaele > >
