Screensaver usurpation
Mamoru Tasaka
mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Wed May 27 15:31:40 UTC 2009
Steve Searle wrote, at 05/28/2009 12:06 AM +9:00:
> Around 03:59pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Rahul Sundaram scrawled:
>
>> On 05/27/2009 08:21 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>>
>>> I've tried the big hammer more than once -- told yum to remove
>>> gnome-screensaver; but it always threatens to take xscreensaver with it.
>>>
>>> Is there anything I can do about this usurpation? Or if not,
>>> might some developer in an idle moment take a hard look at the
>>> dependencies?
>> I don't know what the trouble is. Here I go, on a system with GNOME
>> install, I install xscreensaver
>>
>> http://fpaste.org/paste/13109
>>
>> Then I remove gnome-screensaver
>>
>> http://fpaste.org/paste/13110
>>
>> No problems. Show us your output
>
> Note, I am not the OP, but for me:
>
> # yum remove gnome-screensaver
>
> ...
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> ================================================================================
> Package Arch Version Repository Size
> ================================================================================
> Removing:
> gnome-screensaver i386 2.24.1-2.fc10 installed 3.4 M
> Removing for dependencies:
> fedora-screensaver-theme noarch 1.0.0-3.fc10 installed 18 k
> fedorainfinity-screensaver-theme noarch 1.0.0-1.fc8 installed 102 k
> xscreensaver-extras-gss i386 1:5.08-5.fc10 installed 43 k
> xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss i386 1:5.08-5.fc10 installed 28 k
>
> I don't want to lose these dependencies.
>
> Steve
xscreensaver{,-gl}-extras-gss is not needed when you want to use xscreensaver.
They are needed when you want to use xscreensaver hacks with
gnome-screensaver.
Regards,
Mamoru
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