Unmerging things (a small query)

[mattjgalloway]

I know how to unmerge things, with emerge --unmerge , but what i want to know is, how can I unmerge gnome completely? I emerged it a while back when trying to see if a problem I had was to do with KDE, but it wasn't, and I want to unmerge gnome now as it's taking up space.

If i do:

[adrenalin]

i think you want to read the part of the emerge manpage that refers to depclean. depending on your emerge history this may be what you want. you should be safe when you do