Gnome has disaapeared in FC6 and only KDE remains.-SOLVED

[Rahul Sundaram]

Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:43 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 20:32 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 17:33 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>>>> My experience with FC6 is getting worse and worse. I had the machine
>>>>>> coming up in Gnome. The system offer end me some updates some of which I
>>>>>> chose.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now the machine comes up In KDE. Neither the Sessions option not the
>>>>>> Deskswitcher Tool will allow me to choose GNOME as my desktop. What  do
>>>>>> I do now?
>>>>> Now I don't want to make this too much of a mystery, What happened was
>>>>> piyut or one of the update functions removed gnome-session. But to get
>>>>> it back is a big problem.
>>>> Pirut or yum wont remove packages on its own. If you try and remove any 
>>>> packages through Pirut or yum, it lists the dependencies and you will 
>>>> have to confirm before any package gets removed from the system. I am 
>>>> curious to know why you find it unusable in this instance.
>>>>
>>>> Rahul
>>> The above is simply not true. The package was removed without my confirming the removal.
>>> Unless unclicking a line of additional software in piyut means you want
>>> it removed which is just plain crazy. Again I will start again and we
>>> will see what happens. 
>> The one time I tried pirut I found that unchecking a line meant in-fact
>> that the package/group was to be removed.  I have not used it since.
>>
>>
> I agree with your experience. I think Rahul is wrong in this case.

Unselecting a package does indeed mean you want to uninstall it and 
thats standard behavior in package managers but you need to confirm that 
and it would list dependencies. I dont see what the actual complaint is.

Rahul