Why do so many packaged rely on gnome-panel?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 11/5/06, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 04 November 2006 14:36, Norm wrote:
> > On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 04:14:41 +1800
> >
> > "Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I just installed FC6 tonight. I chose KDE over Gnome. And I just
> > > thought to check what exactly was on my system and if I could clean it
> > > up a bit. During my poking around I realised that 71 packages rely on
> > > gnome-keyring.
> > >
> > > The name, and the description in the RPM suggest that this a password
> > > management tool. Removing this would take with it: libs, openoffice,
> > > koffice, 4 system config tools, 2 out of 3 of my browsers , to sound
> > > engines and 2 media players to name a few things.
> > >
> > > There are a lot of deps that seem strange to me, I suppose in my
> > > ignorance.
> > >
> > > Can anyone shed some light on this?
> > >
> > > Another example would be tat removign gnome-panel cascades into having
> > > to remove kerry (KDE beagle front end) although beagle seems to be
> > > sepeated into a daemon and a gui package , and gnome-panel seems to be
> > > a gui component.
> > >
> > > So instead of filing  a ton og BZs and making a fool of myself, I'm
> > > asking questions  here.
> > >
> > > Thank you.
> >
> > I have virtually the same question except in reverse. I prefer Gnome
> > yet I too have a number of dep from kde. It seems you can not have one
> > with out the other.
>
>  It depends on what apps you run, for instance if you are a gnome user but use
> amarok it will require some kde deps. Same with kde, many of the fedora tools
> are gnome based

About that. I thought the system-config tools weren't even suppose to
rely on a DE. Just Gtk.

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