Gnome required?

Mike Martin redtux1 at googlemail.com
Tue Mar 6 02:58:03 UTC 2007


On 06/03/07, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 12:05 +0000, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > On 3/6/07, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> > > > On 3/6/07, Terry Polzin <foxec208 at wowway.com> wrote:
> > > >> I install F7T2  specifically selecting no GNOME.  What happens when I
> > > >> log in
> > > >> GNOME starts?  I try to remove GNOME via yum group remove and it wants to
> > > >> remove openoffice and other things I want.
> > > >>
> > > >> Why all the GNOME baggage?
> > > >
> > > > I know what you mean dude. I'm not sure how other distros handle it -
> > > > but Fedora seems to be unable to function (with a DE) without gnome.
> > >
> > > Not true.  Again find out what is causing the dependency and file bug
> > > reports instead. It is clearly possible to install Fedora without a
> > > graphical environment.
> >
> > Yes, of course that is possible. That is why I stated that with a
> > graphical environment and desktop environment, it may very well be
> > currently impossible to _not_ have gnome apps.
>
>
> A lot of standard programs like open office and firefox use gtk for
> things like the file and print dialogs in the fedora builds.  Firefox
> even uses it for form widgets I believe.  If you remove gnome it removes
> gtk+ and any other apps that use gtk+.  The correct way to go about it
> is to install the apps from a base install.  They will pull in the
> correct dependencies.
>
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Just a point isn't this backwards? As gnome depends on gtk and not the
other way round removing gnome should leave gtk (and glib, bindings
etc ) alone.




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