On 18:20 Mon 24 Dec , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 2007-12-24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now > >> going to see action as a semi-DMZ. > > > > That sounds like a lot of work. My guess is that it would be a > > faster and easier to wipe the disk and install from scratch. > > I would have done that without hesitation had it not been for the fact > that this installation is a vm guest on winXP and I had a heck of a > time getting it to work with gentoo. > > But as it turned out it wasn't all that hard. Mainly because it was > kind of a basic installation even though it had X and KDE desktop. > > The fact that emerge can swallow giant size lists of stuff to > uninstall was a big bonus. I didn't go over 86 on cmdline and just > settled for doing it multiple times, but I think it would have > swallowed more if I had. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > >
Something to remember for the future: You can delete entries in the world file Personally, I find that faster than going through and finding what is already installed, and doing the uninstall the long way. emerge --tree should help some, as well, but for a basic install (<30 packages in world), deleting the entries should be the fastest way, followed by an emerge --depclean. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
