Mats Lidell schreef: > Kurt Guenther wrote: > > I had started a quest to remove evolution, by removing a few evolution > packages, that might have caused the problem with the > not-complete-gnome-to-2.10 update. But as I said the update probably > removed all clues since it reinstalled evolution for me. (So I still > have this path to go down if I dare try it again. ;.-) This time I will > try to do it while not updating gnome at the same time.
I did this as well, and also wound up with some mis-matched packages (I was having other problems, so I tried to downgrade to 2.8.3). But anyway, the way I "switched over" from gnome (which includes evo and mozilla) to gnome-light (which doesn't) was (without warranty that this is the 'correct' way, or the 'best' way, just the only way I could manage it fairly reasonably): 1) unmerge gnome. This will not remove anything but the metapackage that demands evo, evo-data-server, and mozilla. So they become orphaned dependencies of a package that you have uninstalled. 2) unmerge evo, evo-data-server, epiphany, and mozilla (if desired. I use Firefox, and most things like liferea and others that formerly hooked only into moz have now been updated to hook into firefox instead/as well, so I really don't need Moz hanging around with its bulky self). 3) sync and emerge gnome-light. Possibly -uD, just to make sure you catch anything that may not have been caught in the original GNOME install, and to confirm that everything that needs updating is in fact up to date with the correct version. But if there are any dependencies that you don't already have, they should be installed just like with any emerge. Seems unlikely, though, all things considered. Afaict, this isn't a "clean" switchover; you'll probably have some leftover gnome meta stuff that would not have been installed if you had originally installed gnome-light; Totem, gnome-volume-manager and possibly any gstreamer backend that may have been installed come to mind. But those are all things you might well use anyway, so you can leave them, or dump them, as you please. At least you've got rid of the big stuff, and you have time to compare the gnome and gnome-light ebuilds at your leisure to see if there's any other cruft you don't want (or run emerge -p depclean, or dep, if that's still around). Hope this helps. Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
