depclean to complete delete gnome

luna80

Hello everyone, I would like to ask for your help to completely remove gnome from my system. I use einleightenment now (with slim) and it works perfectly, only i want to clean up what is left of gnome. specifically can you help me check what depclean wants to remove? are there any packages i need to keep? i was thinking x11-apps/xhost, x11-libs/colord-gtk, net-libs/webkit-gtk, sys-fs/fuse, sys-fs/fuse-common, gui-libs/gtk, are correct? am i forgetting anything?

thank you so much in advance

eccerr0r · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:17 pm Post subject:

When you --depclean it will try to get a list of packages it's pretty sure are not needed to run the machine anymore. If you got rid of the gnome-base/gnome (meta) package, everything under it is fair game for removal as long as something else is not using it. So yes you can get rid of them all.

However if you grew accustomed to using a dependency of Gnome without knowing it, like perhaps using xhost, then that will disappear too of course as it's in the depclean list. It will be your responsibility to do without, find an alternative, or perhaps just adding that package to @world (emerge --select --noreplace x11-apps/xhost) so that it won't try to depclean it. This is why --depclean asks you to check the list before letting it clean up packages.

But if you don't really use these packages, just let it depclean it! No real need to keep webkit-gtk around if you delete yelp or epiphany, which is/had been a dependency of Gnome.
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:23 pm Post subject:

luna80,

Those are all packages that are not required my the packages listed in /var/lib/portage/world.
You can look but do not edit that file.

There are two questions ...
1. Have you got world pollution?
That is, are there things listed there that should not be?
If so, there are more packages that can be considered for --depclean.
2. Are there packages in that list that you have installed with --oneshot but really want to keep.

Regardless of the answer to 1, the list is harmless. Its not going to remove gcc or libc.
If you get the answer to 2. wrong, you can always fix it later.

To edit the world file use

luna80 · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 1:59 pm Post subject:

luna80 · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 2:03 pm Post subject:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8938

The world file contains packages that you consciously installed to be permanently on your system.

It should not contain packages that you know nothing about, like libraries, but these entries find their way into @world by careless manual emerge runs (not using -1 (--oneshot) will register packages in @world when requested for (re-)build).

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 2:52 pm Post subject:

luna80,

When things get added to world accidentality, it's not an immediate problem.

It become a problem when the package(s) get masked or removed. They are listed in your world, so portage wants to keep them installed.
However, it works out that there are "no packages that provide ..." or " all packages that can provide ... are masked", so the dependency tree cannot be resolved.
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luna80 · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:23 pm Post subject:

ok, so I shouldn't have any problems running this depclean if I don't know these packages?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:24 pm Post subject:

luna80,

Nothing you can't fix if you find you really wanted to keep something.
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luna80 · Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2022 3:50 pm Post subject:

many many thanks, to all
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luna80 · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 3:59 am Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:14 am Post subject:

You should use --select with --noreplace if you want to keep the current version and stick it in @world. If you use both of these, it is eligible for update, so if you emerge @world, it will now be checked for new versions.

You could just emerge with no options, it will put it in world and update to the current version as well.
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luna80 · Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:21 am Post subject:

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luna80 · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 1:45 pm Post subject:

eccerr0r · Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2022 4:08 pm Post subject:

Apparently, yes. I guess I just wanted to make sure it does what I want it to do :D
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