On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 04:57:52PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote > Any advice about slick ways of getting fully updated but dumping kde > on the way.
*IMPORTANT* KDE is obscene about dependancies. E.g. when a lightweight pdf-reader was phased out, I looked at various options including okular. It's an "itty-bitty-little-applet"... that seems to pull in 90% of KDE as dependancies. If you want to get rid of KDE, you must be prepared to dump every last little KDE app/applet. It's an all-or-nothing situation. Sorry. 1) "eselect profile list" and switch to a basic non-KDE profile of your choice. 2) "emerge gentoolkit" if not already present. 3) "cat /var/lib/portage/world" and see what KDE stuff you have. 4) Unmerge (i.e. "emerge --unmerge) obvious KDE-related stuff that you find in world. 5) "emerge --depclean" (May not help if you've done "emerge --sync" and not fully updated). The next 3 steps are going to be repeated several times 6) "emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world" 7) You'll probably see portage try to pull KDE back in. For each lib "fu-bar/foobar" that portage tries to pull in do "equery d fu-bar/foobar" and manually unmerge whatever it finds. (Note: gentoolkit provides the equery tool). 8) GOTO 6 (until portage stops trying to pull in KDE stuff). -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
