How can I emerge GNOME without gaming and evolution?

clouds222

I don't play games and don't use evolution w/ gnome, but just play movies and do some management.

Once I install or upgrade gnome, there are so many apps those don't use will be emerged at the same time, and will cost so much time to build.

Can I avoid emerging those apps? Why don't Gentoo set some USE flags to close these apps?

Of cause there is a gnome-light package I can emerge, but there still so many tools I need to emerge by hand, and maybe some tools I found usefull in gnome but I don't know what the package name to be emerged additional to gnome-light.

FizzyWidget · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:05 am Post subject:

you could always make a local repository and put the ebuilds in there, and then edit out the requirement of evolution and games from what ever ebuild pulls them in, a bit of a mess about i know, but its something im looking into as there is loads of apps that get pulled in i just dont need/use
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Amity88 · Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 9:42 am Post subject:

I have that problem with the comp back home. On this one I use gnome-light, use the online package database [gnome-utils, gnome-extras] to figure out what additional packages you need.
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clouds222 · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:53 am Post subject:

So, gnome-utils, gnome-extras can tell me what additional package can be used?

cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

Run "emerge --verbose --pretend --emptytree gnome", and check the results
for the packages you don't want. Then write a script to emerge the remaining
packages piecemeal.

Will

dage · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 14 Location: Belgium

you can try gnome-light, it'll install all the basic packages of gnome (without gaming nor evolution). Then you can install all the remaining packages