Help i emerged gnome by mistake

msimplay · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 161

well i was trying to emerge gnome and i thought i was chrooted into the other drive however it turns out i had emerged gnome onto my current drive
i'd like to remove it somehow
Does anyone know what packages i have to remove ?

SoulSe · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 10:57 am Post subject:

If you emerged it, just un-emerge it with emerge -C from the same environment where you orignally installed it...
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msimplay · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 161

UB|K · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:19 am Post subject:

do a :

SoulSe · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:20 am Post subject:

Do emerge -p to find out what packages it would (and therefore did) install.
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cbradney · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

Or probably better, work out when you started the emerge, and have a look in

msimplay · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jun 2004 Posts: 161

thank you everyone that worked well

Azalit · n00b Joined: 08 May 2005 Posts: 12

none of that worked for me :cry:

and

again.

theDreamer · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 118

I took the entire package list of gnome from portage/profiles/package.mask (contains a mask to 2.10-something):

Keffin · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 7:59 am Post subject:

By far the easiest way to remove something like Gnome is to do "emerge -C gnome" then "emerge depclean". depclean runs through all your installed (by portage) packages and deletes them if they are not in the world file and are not depended on by anything else in the world file.

As emerging gnome only puts a gnome line in the world file (no lines added for the deps), unmerging it removes that line and leaves all the dependencies it pulled in free for the depcleaning.

You may note from the warning that comes when you run emerge depclean that you might want to do a pretend run "emerge -pv depclean" first and check that nothing really bizarre is listed. I've personally never had a problem (and I've used this to remove gnome myself) with it and almost anything can easily be remerged if things break anyway, but it's worth mentioning to be afraid if it says it will remove python/gcc :O.
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