Gnome required?
Adam Jackson
ajackson at redhat.com
Tue Mar 6 15:34:13 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 02:58 +0000, Mike Martin wrote:
> On 06/03/07, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
> > A lot of standard programs like open office and firefox use gtk for
> > things like the file and print dialogs in the fedora builds. Firefox
> > even uses it for form widgets I believe. If you remove gnome it removes
> > gtk+ and any other apps that use gtk+. The correct way to go about it
> > is to install the apps from a base install. They will pull in the
> > correct dependencies.
> >
> Just a point isn't this backwards? As gnome depends on gtk and not the
> other way round removing gnome should leave gtk (and glib, bindings
> etc ) alone.
Define "removing Gnome", and contrast that definition with "removing all
packages belonging to the Gnome group in comps".
- ajax
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