Screensaver usurpation

[Steve Searle]

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

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