Gnome required?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 5 17:31:16 UTC 2007


Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 04:09, oldman wrote:
>> Terry Polzin wrote:
>>> On Monday 05 March 2007 09:08, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>>> On Monday 05 March 2007 05:36:13 Terry Polzin wrote:
> 
>> I think what Jessie was trying to tell you is that you will not be able
>> to use the "Group Remove" option of Yum because that will remove things
>> that the listed programs require.  No way around that, sorry to say.
>>
>> How did you select no Gnome? I assume it was where Anaconda allows you
>> to specify packages no? Did you check the log in the /root directory?
>> that may tell you if you installed the complete Gnome, which may be an
>> excellent start for a Bug Report if Gnome was installed despite your
>> telling it not to.
>>
>> I'm no expert here by a long shot, but it seem to me that if Anaconda
>> installed Gnome when you said NO that that may be your problem and other
>> than listing the Gnome Group and removing packages one at a time,
>> checking that you are not removing needed dependencies (you don't really
>> want to do THAT do you?).  My suggestion is to bug report it with as
>> much info as you can give it and live with it 'til F7T3 or T4 comes out.
>> (hey it's only a month or so eh?)
> 
> Once again;
> 
>>>>> I installed F7T2  specifically selecting no GNOME.  

Repeating messages doesnt really help. If you unselected GNOME and there 
was another package that required GNOME, it would be pulled in as a 
dependency. You would need to look at the package list to find out more 
details and file a bug report with more information.

Rahul





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