Cheryl, An important mistake!
Please use emerge -pv --update --deep --newuse world when checking your system. --oneshot is for when you need to isntall something and don't want it going into the world file. you want to use --newuse to ensure that everything installed is consistent with the current set of flags. sorry, Mark On 5/17/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I put gnome on my system to try out gnopernicus which isn't working for > me. I'd like to take gnome off of my system now but don't want to > inadvertently remove needed X packages or libraries. Is there a way to > do this? > Tia. > > Hi Cheryl, > I've just been going through this sort of thing cleaning up my > world file. To sort of encapsulate the process forst make sure you're > system is up to date and clean using a command suvch as > > emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep world > > After that you could use > > emerge -Cp gnome > > to remove the top bit of Gnome but none of the underlying package. > > You can then run emerge -pv --depclean > > to find things that are no longer needed. Presumably this will include > the next portions of gnome. you can remove them using --depclean but > make sure that it's not trying to take too much out. If it is addd > these other things into your world file. > > When you've done a bit of work then try > > revdep-rebuild -p > > to make sure that dependencies haven't been broken and emerge back in > anything that's needed to fix up broken dependencies. > > when you're all done all three of these commands > > emerge -pv --oneshot --update --deep world > emerge -pv --depclean > revdep-rebuild -p > > should come out clean and tell you there's no more work to do. > > Hope this helps, > Mark > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
