Re: Gnome required?

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 02:58 +0000, Mike Martin wrote:
> On 06/03/07, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp 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