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

[Rahul Sundaram]

John Wendel wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Jeff Vian wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:32 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>> On Monday 06 November 2006 13:00, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:43 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>> This is standard behaviour in our least-favourite OS.  It could be 
>>>> said that you are asking for it to be  uninstalled if you uncheck it.
>>>>
>>> Exactly, which is why pirut is on my "do not use" list.
>>
>> Pirut has similar behavior as Yumex or Synaptic for example. 
>> Unselecting a package in the package list clearly means remove the 
>> software in all these package managers.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
> 
> Actually, in Synaptic, unselecting a package means right click, navigate 
> a menu, see a pop-up window telling you what is going to be uninstalled, 
> and click OK or cancel. A far cry from "unchecking a line". It isn't 
> something you can do by accident.

Pirut prompts with the complete list of dependencies before 
uninstallation too. That prompt had a timeout which is removed in the 
latest update. If you unselect a package and accept a dialog box for 
confirmation, then your packages are going to get removed. More hand 
holding is unnecessary IMO.

Rahul