Re: [gentoo-user] removing X
On Monday 24 December 2007 18:31:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. Yeah, emerge does not accept globbing. bash does though so you could just cd to /var/db/pkg and take advantage of that. For paludis users there are arguments to help with this kind of thing. :) Uninstall options Options which are relevant for --uninstall. --with-unused-dependencies (--no-with-unused-dependencies) Also uninstall any dependencies of the target that are no longer used --with-dependencies (--no-with-dependencies) Also uninstall packages that depend upon the target Also paludis' equivalent for --depclean (--uninstall-unused) doesn't require you to upgrade everything. ;) -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] removing X
I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] removing X
Hello On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:31:16AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to see action as a semi-DMZ. What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it wrong. Would just passing dozens of command line arguments to emerge be a suitable way to get rid of all the clutter? You could remove the meta-package (the one that has size 0 and depends on everything, I guess it's xorg-x11) and then emerge --depclean. You probably should check, what everything that might want to remove, as it might get the things a bit wrong, sometimes. -- When eating an elephant take one bite at a time. -- Gen. C. Abrams Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgpTBIgkd0FIE.pgp Description: PGP signature
