question about yum update, graphics packages

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 16:23 -0500, Peter Horst wrote:
> 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 -

The system-config-* tools are just convenient GUIs that sit on top of
lower-level tools or manipulate configuration files. I don't use them
anyway.

Paul.