On Thu, 06 May 2004 22:26:00 +1000, ric_man
<ric_on_the_go--NO_SPAM@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>aye wrote:
>> look at /var/cache/edb/world <- there are packages, which you've
>> installed manually (without dependencies). uninstall these, you don't
>> want anymore and make 'emerge depclean' (with caution!) to remove
>> unneeded dependencies.
>
>That's basically the info I'm after... In the end, I have done something
>like that to remove KDE and try to stick with GNOME for a while.
>
>Thanks for the info, and thanks for everyone who's come up with an answer...
>
>...Ric

On the off-chance that you remove something important that breaks the
dependency chain you can use 'revdep-rebuild' to fix the problem.