Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1840 mails)

[Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/03/2009 02:43 PM, Clayton pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> So, I've installed 11.2 on a test-bed computer, using all defaults to
> get KDE4.  I've updated to KDE4.3.4, and now it's time to install
> Gnome.  I'd like to install Gnome Factory, but I'll settle for the
> stable version from the 11.2 repos to get started.
>
> There's no one-click install for Gnome that I can find on the openSUSE
> Wiki... Why not?  KDE4 has them... is there any reason Gnome doesn't?
>
> If I go into YaST and find the most logical metapackage for installing
> Gnome, "patterns-openSUSE-Gnome" and select it for installation, YaST
> wants to remove "patterns-openSUSE-kde4_pure"... whatever that is.
> I've searched the docs, the Wiki and general searching with Google...
> lots of references to that package but nothing that tells me what it
> is, or what will be missing if I remove it.

Gnome is a bully and wants to be the only one on the block. I had a
similar problem with gnome-control-panel, when I went to do an update
parts of KDE were going to be removed until I first deleted
gnome-control-panel.

-- 
Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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