Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (331 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"M9." <monkey9@xxxxxx> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I upgraded all pkgs manualy choosen..
> When trying to get rid of gnome, this was impossible...
> Very anoying, to have to install pkgs and apps to your system, you never
> use, just to fullfill deps.

Which packages exactly are on your system that you want to get rid of?

> Is there a way to check which gnome specific pkgs are realy needed to
> run suse?
> I am satisfied with KDE and if xfce is dependable on gnome, i will get
> rid of it also.
>
> I want to run a 'gnomeclean' KDE environment.
> Is this possible?
> (strange that these have to be mixed to function anyway.)
>
> This way i am forced to 'check' gnome also, which i do not want.

You should not need to check the GNOME pattern at all

> It is silly, that it is not possible to update a system, due to an
> invalid DE, one not wants to use, don't you agree?

There are packages like flashplayer, acrobat reader and gimp that use
the gtk libraries - are you speaking about these?  Or what is your
problem?  A lot of libraries are kind of system libraries, you cannot
get rid of them,

Andreas
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