question about yum update, graphics packages

[Peter Horst]

Paul Howarth wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:46 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
>>>[snip]
>
>You can first of all see if they're currently installed:
>
>$ rpm -q gtk2 mesa-libGL
>
>If they are, you can check what package(s) requires them by asking yum
>to remove them:
>
># yum remove gtk2 mesa-libGL
>
>You probably won't want to actually remove these packages, so be sure
>not to use "yum -y" and be careful to respond "N" when prompted whether
>to go ahead with the removal or not.
>  
>
Thanks - very helpful.  The gtk2 libs, for example, are required by a 
whole bunch of stuff I didn't want, and didn't think I had anyway, such 
as Gnome.  The only kicker is that they're also required for 
system-config-*, which are useful little programs I think. Would you 
happen to know whether they do anything that can't be done by other 
means?  I would have to guess not...

In any case, I now know what to do, so thanks very much -

Peter