Removing unneeded packages

neptune · n00b Joined: 11 Oct 2002 Posts: 49

Hello, this has probably been asked, but I can't find any valuable answer. I have a router installed with Gentoo. After some emerges, I list all installed package and see that xfree is installed.

I really don't need xfree on a router. So I've put -X in my /etc/make.conf file. Good. Now, how to know wich installation has requested xfree as a dependency and how to unmerge it (xfree) without breaking the package that requested its installation?

Doing a emerge depclean doesn't help. So, what I want is to remove package really not needed on a router like xfree, freetype, qt,...

Thanks in advance for helping!

Genone · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:56 pm Post subject:

To be on the safe side I would do the following:

- set USE="-* other use flags you need" as there are more USE flags that affect the nstallation of xfree (like qt, gtk, tcltk, ...). emerge ufed to get a list of all available USE flags
- run emerge -e world to recompile your system, you might get problems if packages were compiled against xfree/qt/... if you're not doing this.
- run emerge -p depclean and unmerge packages you don't need.

This will obviously take a lot of time.