[SOLVED] Change DE without format

Hi All,
I'm so new of Arch but my loving it!
Now I've installed Arch with gnome but now i whant to move to kde (I've use it with another distro and i prefer it than gnome)
To let arch work i've read and follow the beginner guide.
I want to ask you if there's a way to roll-back the "pc-status" at the point of the guide where I've to chose what DE I want to use.
In other words i want to get back a fresh installation without DE and withou format the pc.
Is it possible?
I don't think that a pacman R gnome gnome-extra is sufficient.... isn't it?
Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad english!
Ale
Last edited by Alexbit (2010-06-14 10:20:42)

man pacman wrote:-s Remove each target specified including all of their dependencies, provided that (A) they are not required by other packages; and (B) they were not explicitly installed by the user. This operation is recursive and analogous to a backwards --sync operation, and helps keep a clean system without orphans. If you want to omit condition (B), pass this option twice.
That's what's probably going on on your system. If you've gat an app that's relying on some part of gnome (and believe me, there are many), pacman won't uninstall it.
That's the buty edit: "beauty" of dependency management. Otherwise it would be easy to break pretty much everything.
EDIT: Oh well, it's early morning over here. Need some coffee!
Last edited by JackH79 (2010-06-03 00:39:51)

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