Anyway, moot point now that there's packages
You mean "patterns", I suppose :-)
:-P Yup
It is, I think, a metapackage. A false package that brings, by dependencies, all of kde. A packager trick. And the "pure" probably means "no other desktop, I want kde purely and solely". Thus installing other desktop would break that idea, so it is uninstalled. No big deal, uninstall it. You say it contains nothing? Uninstall it.
Yes it is a metapackage... it's listed in the Metapackage in YaST. I "think" it contains nothing... I cannot find anything associated with it... except one meaningless txt file.
and.. why is there no One-Click for Gnome?
Where, in the wiki? Perhaps no one has thought of creating it.
Yes. There are One-Clicks for KDE4... one for Stable, one for Factory and so on. I'm surprised I guess... that after all the kerfuffle recently that Gnome was not made easier to install for new users who are running KDE4 - I'm not looking at it from my own personal perspective with around 12 years of openSUSE behind me... I'm looking at it from the perspective of the new users I introduce to openSUSE... something I do all the time (in fact the most recent was just 4 days ago). Telling them to pick a random Gnome package and cross their fingers that they get the whole of Gnome is a pretty poor way of doing it.. I went with the patterns solution.. and then there was the worried question.. why is it removing KDE4? when kde4_pure came up.
But I just fired the qt version of yast in 11.2 in another machine, selected the "patterns" tab, and right at the top of the left hand panel I see "Gnome desktop environment" and "gnome base system" (plus the equivalent for kde4, which in my case are not selected). Just select those two gnome patterns.
Doesn't that work for you?
Yes, but it yells about kde4_pure which worries the new users... I'm looking for a couple things.. a simple way to install Gnome.. ie the One-Click which KDE already has. The patterns work too... but that one package... it needs a better description... or shouldn't be there in the first place. I could open a bug report on it I guess. I dunno... I'm not a Gnome user... I've used KDE since the beginning of KDE. I don't plan on using Gnome much at all except to experiment, and hopefully participate in the rework that some are working on for the GTK Software Manager. In the end I don't care for my own system... but I am encountering it as a problem with the new users I help out. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org