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BloodyAlice
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:31 am Post subject: how to delete xfce |
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| I have recently installed xfce for testing some stuff and I want to get rid of everything that came with it.... what quick, clean, and safe way would you suggest? |
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tatotato
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:35 am Post subject: |
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emerge unemerge xfce4
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should be the command to do the trick.
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BloodyAlice
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:40 am Post subject: |
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| tatotato wrote: | | Code: |
emerge unemerge xfce4
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should be the command to do the trick. |
that only unmerges the meta package... not to mention you're missing an -- in front of unmerge, and even so -C is what everybody uses  |
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cyberjun
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:49 am Post subject: |
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After | Quote: | | emerge --unmerge xfce |
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| Quote: | | emerge -av --depclean |
Another way would be to look at the /var/log/emerge.log file and manually unmerge all the packages that got installed while merging xfce.
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tatotato
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:51 am Post subject: |
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| BloodyAlice wrote: | | tatotato wrote: | | Code: |
emerge unemerge xfce4
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should be the command to do the trick. |
that only unmerges the meta package... not to mention you're missing an -- in front of unmerge, and even so -C is what everybody uses |
Oh. Thanks for the correction  still getting to grips with emerge.
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BloodyAlice
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| Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2008 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| @cyberjun, yep, I already did the depclean stuff... wondered just if it may have missed smth... I can remember i tried to wipe gnome with it but some bits still stuck to my machine afterwards |
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i92guboj
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| BloodyAlice wrote: | | @cyberjun, yep, I already did the depclean stuff... wondered just if it may have missed smth... I can remember i tried to wipe gnome with it but some bits still stuck to my machine afterwards |
In a sane system, all the packages not listed in world, or that are not dependencies of packages listed in world at some point, are orphaned packages, and will be removed when using "emerge --depclean".
So, if you used "emerge xfce4" or a similar thing to emerge it, then, unmerging that metapackage and using --depclean afterwards should be more than enough. If something remains, it is because:
1.- It is still a dependency of something that is installed, OR
2.- You re-emerged that concrete package by hand, without using the -1 or --oneshot
That is why, if you want to use the --depclean feature, then you MUST know how the --oneshot feature works. If you don't know when and how to use --oneshot, then, --depclean can be completely useless. |
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