Gnome required?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 5 17:47:24 UTC 2007


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.

Rahul




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