Brief diary of an F-7 installation

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alan M. Evans wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 20:40 +0100, ne... wrote:
>> For instance, why is it that when you choose KDE and not gnome,
>> gnome-games is selected but not kdegames???
> 
> I must say, I found this statement pretty incredible. Being of GNOME
> persuasion, I don't pay much attention generally to KDE issues. But just
> to see, I created a quick VM and installed F7 from the DVD iso. I went
> to Customize Now and checked KDE, unchecked GNOME. Wow:
> 
>         $ rpm -qa | grep "^gnome" | wc -l
>         20
>         $ rpm -qa | grep "^kde" | wc -l
>         13
> 
> And sure enough, gnome-games is installed, kdegames is not. Amazingly,
> among the installed packages are: gnome-desktop, gnome-panel,
> gnome-media, gnome-menus, and gnome-themes. I wouldn't have expected
> that at all!
> 
> For comparison, a relatively untouched fresh install with GNOME, not
> KDE:
> 
>         $ rpm -qa | grep "^gnome" | wc -l
>         44
>         $ rpm -qa | grep "^kde" | wc -l
>         0
> 
> I'm speechless, really.

File a bug report. This should be easily fixable. Some of the system 
tools pull in GTK and other dependencies but some like GNOME games are 
probably just package grouping warts.

Rahul