On Monday 24 December 2007 18:31:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm attempting to remove X from a former desktop machine now going to > see action as a semi-DMZ. > > What is the best way to go about removing X and all its files. > > Removing the basic x11-base/xorg-x11 is easy enough but there appears > to be dozens of other X related pkgs installed. > x11-proto/* has apparently dozens of relatives installed. > > emerge does not appear to accept globbing or maybe I'm just doing it > wrong.
Yeah, emerge does not accept globbing. bash does though so you could just cd
to /var/db/pkg and take advantage of that.
For paludis users there are arguments to help with this kind of thing. :)
Uninstall options
Options which are relevant for --uninstall.
--with-unused-dependencies (--no-with-unused-dependencies)
Also uninstall any dependencies of the target that are no longer
used
--with-dependencies (--no-with-dependencies)
Also uninstall packages that depend upon the target
Also paludis' equivalent for --depclean (--uninstall-unused) doesn't require
you to upgrade everything. ;)
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Bo Andresen
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