Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 12 September 2006 13:02, Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I decided to purge Gnome from my system as I seldom run it. A >>> quick look in the gnome ebuild shows that it's a >>> ginormous -meta package, meaning I have some work ahead of me. >>> >>> First I updated USE and removed gnome, gstreamer and other >>> gnome-related flags. I left gtk in for the likes of gimp which >>> I do use. Then manually unmerged a ton of gnome packages, >>> intending to finish up with 'emerge --depclean' >>> and 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the mistakes I'd made. >>> >>> Imagine my surprise when remerging openoffice wants to pull in >>> half of gnome again. I can understand it needs gtk, I do not >>> understand why it wants evolution-data-server, gconf and >>> gnome-panel. >>> >>> I know how to fix this, that's not my question. My question is >>> why on earth does an office suite depend on half a desktop >>> environment? And is there a (relatively) easy way to get my >>> system back to the state it would be in if I had always >>> had -gnome in USE all along? >>> >>> alan >>> >> If this helps any, I have never had Gnome installed and have this: >> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # equery list gnome >>> [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ] >>> * installed packages >>> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm-2.6.1 (1.1) >>> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomecanvasmm-2.6.1 (2.6) >>> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomemm-2.6.0 (2.6) >>> [I--] [ ] dev-cpp/libgnomeuimm-2.6.0 (2.6) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-common-1.2.4-r4 (2) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-0.4.9 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 (1) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-mime-data-2.4.2 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-print-0.37 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-1.0.5-r4 (1) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.14.2-r1 (2) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnome-2.14.1 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.14.0 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprint-2.12.1 (2.2) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeprintui-2.12.1 (2.2) >>> [I--] [ ] gnome-base/libgnomeui-2.14.1 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] net-print/libgnomecups-0.2.0 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 (0) >>> [I--] [ ] x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.14.2 (0) >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # >>> >> My USE line is this: >> >>> USE="acl acpi alsa amd arts artswrappersuid automount browserplugin >>> bzip2 cdr chroot crypt dbus doc dvd dvdr esd exif fdftk -firefox gaim >>> gcj gif gimp gimpprint gkrellm -gnome gphoto2 gtk hal hbci ipv6 java >>> javascript jbig jpeg jpeg2k justify kde mmx mp3 nsplugin ofx offensive >>> opengl -oss postgres ppds qt3 qt4 samba scanner seamonkey sqlite sse >>> syslog tcltk tiff tk truetype udev usb win32codecs wmf X xmms xml >>> xprint yahoo 3dnow " >>> >> May be able to "cheat" a little and get rid of some more though. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > With these USE flags in place I do not have gnome on my system: > > -eds -esd -gnome -gtk > > Proof: > ================================================ > # equery l gnome > [ Searching for package 'gnome' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > # > ================================================ >
Cool. I need to mark this one important so I can find it again. Do you notice anything missing like in OOo, Mozilla/Seamonkey or anything like that?? Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
