removing both kde and gnome on an old laptop

nickel

Hi everyone,

i had an old Acer Inspiron (7 years old, i7 2nd generation, 8gb DDR2 Ram, 250 Gb SSD + 750 Gb)

I did use GNOME 2 for quite some time. Then i tried GNOME 3 for a couple months, but didn't like it. So, i decided to switch to KDE: first 4 and then plasma. I=t semed nice, but wasn't happy with it.

I bought a RPI 3. I was hoping to replace my Laptop with it. Turns out, i couldn't. It was too slow and the memory was gone too fast, even though i tried and keep the resources consumption at minimum.

That's when i started using i3 and i love it!

I want to get rid KDE. But i'm not sure how.
Do i have to uninstal Qt too? I use networkkmanager.
Which profile should i use? I use systemd.

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 10:59 am Post subject:

Usually you should remove parent package and the use depclean for removing unused dependencies

nickel · Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 7:17 pm Post subject:

thx. I'll try that.
But what about my profile:

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 7:23 pm Post subject:

If you want systemd you can combine default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop and default/linux/amd64/17.0/systemd profiles
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nickel · Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 9:06 am Post subject:

Juippisi · Developer Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 724 Location: /home

Switch your profile to pure desktop one,

check all USE flags in /etc/portage/* (make.conf, package.use)

check and clean your portage world file (/var/lib/portage/world)

that should help you clean it :)

nickel · Posted: Wed May 16, 2018 4:31 pm Post subject:

thx
i switched to profile 30
and did emerge -aC gnome plasma-meta and emerge -.ac as suggested but i got this:

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

Bad idea. Notice the news item: 2017-12-26 Experimental amd64 17.1 profiles up for testing

Emphasis on *experimental*.

That aside, a profile switch will always necessitate a world update with -N. This one requires much more.

nickel · Posted: Thu May 17, 2018 7:44 pm Post subject:

nickel · Posted: Fri May 18, 2018 6:52 pm Post subject:

I've read here (German), that there's been a change for Xorg header files from Xorg and gentoo developers, in order to increase its speed and performance.
The new package x11-base/xorg-proto will replace eventually all the x11-proto packages.

Well, what can i said? :oops:

I haven't updated my system in almost a year, with exceptions of chromium, thunderbird and firefox