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Clad in Sky l33t
Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:51 am Post subject: [SOLVED]Switching from Gnome 2 to MATE |
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Hello,
I have a system here that hasn't been updated in a while due to Gnome 3 going stable and a lack of time.
Since MATE is a very nice replacement for Gnome 2 (yeah, kinda obvious), I'd like to install this.
The question is, however, how would I best avoid a huge mess?
I think in order to be a bit more up to date, emerge --update system is a good idea.
Then I'd need to get rid of all Gnome stuff, and I'm not sure how to do that, but I might find an answer in some old thread [OK, found that one]. Any help is appreciated.
Thank you. _________________ Kali Ma
Now it's autumn of the aeons
Dance with your sword
Now it's time for the harvest
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krinn Watchman
Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470
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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2014 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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I have just done "emerge -c gnome-light && emerge mate slim". (but i remember slim stopped me as you must pass its package/slim form as some other slim exist)
I just kept my gnome mask to make sure i could still use a few gnome applications without the systemd crap been pull.
For now i have a few unused gnome applications i don't really care as they will get depclean if i run it one day
The biggest problem was slim (biggest doesn't mean it's a big one) |
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Clad in Sky l33t
Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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OK, a new problem's come up.
I have removed all gnome packages from my world file, put -gnome in make.conf and selected the pure desktop profile instead of desktop/gnome. Yet when I try to update my world gnome stuff is in the list of stuff to be updated and causes problems.
Any idea how to find out why all that gnome-stuff is still there? _________________ Kali Ma
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ct85711 Veteran
Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2014 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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well, to find out what is pulling something in, you could add the "-t" option to your emerge line; to have portage display the list in a tree fashion. Personally I never did like that way myself, as I always find it gets confusing easily enough. I perfer to use "equery d" instead to see what depends on that package, just use it on the gnome packages that are being brought in. |
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Princess Nell l33t
Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916
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Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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I have a mate/desktop profile system, and there are still some 25 gnome-related ebuilds on the system.
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equery l "*" |grep -i gnome
app-text/gnome-doc-utils-0.20.10-r1
gnome-base/dconf-0.20.0
gnome-base/gconf-3.2.6-r3
gnome-base/gnome-common-3.12.0
gnome-base/gnome-keyring-3.12.2-r1
gnome-base/gsettings-desktop-schemas-3.12.2
gnome-base/gvfs-1.20.2
gnome-base/libglade-2.6.4-r2
gnome-base/libgnome-keyring-3.12.0
gnome-base/libgnomecanvas-2.30.3-r1
gnome-base/libgtop-2.30.0
gnome-base/librsvg-2.40.2-r1
gnome-extra/gucharmap-3.0.1-r200
gnome-extra/gucharmap-3.12.1
gnome-extra/libgsf-1.14.30
gnome-extra/nm-applet-0.9.8.10-r1
gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105
gnome-extra/yelp-3.12.0
gnome-extra/yelp-xsl-3.12.0
net-libs/libsoup-gnome-2.46.0
net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth-3.12.0
x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.36.3
x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-3.12.0
x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-symbolic-3.12.0
x11-themes/gnome-themes-standard-3.12.0
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Then you can run equery d on each on them to see what pulls them in
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equery d gnome-doc-utils
* These packages depend on gnome-doc-utils:
net-misc/vinagre-2.30.3 (app-text/gnome-doc-utils)
sys-block/gparted-0.19.0 (app-text/gnome-doc-utils)
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Clad in Sky l33t
Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany
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Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, got it.
Even though I put -gnome into make.conf, gksu still had the gnome flag enabled and pulled in some other gnome stuff. Next time I'll specify --newuse. Always thought it was a bit redundant, since updated packages will use the new flags anyway.
You live and learn. _________________ Kali Ma
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Princess Nell l33t
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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 12:22 am Post subject: |
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'O beloved of Siva
The world is pain.
Hhm, did I just get carried away that little bit too much. |
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