Removing Gnome from F11

[Aaron Konstam]

On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 20:26 -0700, john wendel wrote:
> I'm happily using LXDE on my F11 system, and I thought I'd remove Gnome, 
> using "yum remove gnome\*".
> 
> Well, it was not to be. Yum decide to remove parts of LXDE, Firefox, 
> Thunderbird, Java, abiword, most of the "system" admin utilities, and 
> about 50 other programs that I would think have nothing to do with Gnome.
> 
> Am I stupid or what? Why would Fedora's Firefox have a Gnome dependency 
> when I'm sure that the Mozilla version doesn't? Are these "real" 
> dependencies or packaging artifacts?
> 
> I don't think I like this disto as much as I once did.
> 
> John
> 
Have you tried:
 yum groupremove GNOME Desktop Environment
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