Minimalist Installs (was Checkbox for "Install Everything")

[Knute Johnson]

>For the record... Starting off with some minimum default installation, and 
>then adding stuff later, doesn't necessarily work all that well either.
>
>I did an F7 Test 4 installation taking JUST the default packages that the 
>installer presented to me, including Gnome but no KDE.
>
>Now, whenever I do a new installation I always install both Gnome and KDE, 
>but this time I resisted the temptation.
>
>Then, after I got it all up and running, I logged on as root and tried "yum 
>groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"".  Result was:
>
>Transaction Check Error:
>file /usr/share/config/kdm conflicts between attempted installs of 
>kde-settings-kdm-3.5-23.fc7 and kdebase-3.5.6-10.fc7
>
>Tried using "Add / Remove Programs" to install KDE and got pretty much the 
>same thing.
>
>Amazingly enough I couldn't find anything about that in the bugzilla 
>database, so I reported it as bug 240717.
>
>Have any of you run across that, and what did you do about it?
>
>Eric <trying VERY hard to resist the temptation to ask
>         WHY these installations always default to Gnome
>         and not KDE...>

I'm having the same problem and I installed both KDE and Gnome from 
the get go.  There is something goofy in the updates.  I haven't had 
time to fool with it but it was working perfectly till this last 
update.

I like Xfce, so there you go.

-- 
Knute Johnson
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