[SOLVED]Switching from Gnome 2 to MATE

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany

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.
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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

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)

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany

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?
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ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

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.

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

I have a mate/desktop profile system, and there are still some 25 gnome-related ebuilds on the system.

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 887 Location: Germany

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.
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Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

'O beloved of Siva
The world is pain.

Hhm, did I just get carried away that little bit too much.