Removing KDE

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 24 November 2004 21:00, Tom Coburn wrote:
>yeah really,  KDE SUCKS!!! get rid of it redhat!!
>
>anyone who likes KDE might as well run WIndows, it just SUCKS.
>
>run  XFCE,    or even tvm or icevm or something.
>
>gnome is ok but still rather slow..  me personally I can't live
> without XFCE. and KDE is just...wrong...  too much like windows,
> crashes the whole system too often and is too memory hog
> intensive...  just get rid of it,
>it sucks...

Yur rant about kde is uncalled for.  I run it, a 'konstruct' built 
3.3.0, and its very stable. I don't have 1% of the problems others 
report after putting in cobbled up rpms.

>oh, and when you decide NOT to install KDE,  FIX yum so it doesn't
>install it on your system when doing an upgrade when its NOT on your
>system in the first place..  that annoys me more then
> ANYTHING........ when you run yum it should update ONLY WHATS
> CURRENTLY ON YOUR SYSTEM, not add additional programs not found on
> it..  that is SOO annoying!
>
Oh, now suppose you want yum to install program W, but program W needs 
libraries X, Y, and Z.  Just howinhell is it supposed to make W work 
without putting in X, Y, and Z?  Think about it.  Seems like a heck 
of a good question to me, and a million other linux users will be 
glad to hear how you figured it out.  Oh, it can be done, if 
everything on the system is compiled static with the required 
libraries each one needs built into the executable.  It has one 
glaring problem though, you'll no doubt need a terrabyte raid to hold 
a 3Gb install if everything was done that way, because every program 
that needs glibc would grow by the size of glibc and its 
accoutrements.  A simple 'hello world' might be 13 megabytes.  Both 
on disk, AND in memory...

>On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 09:37:59 -0500, Greg Lobring <globring at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>> I've researched and found out how to remove older unused kernels
>> on my system. I open a terminal, change to root and do an "rpm -e
>> <kernel-name>".
>>
>> However, I exclusively use Gnome on my machine (it is simply a
>> web-surfing, email, open office and number cruncher). I don't use
>> it as a server or firewall of any type. Its basically a machine
>> that if something went belly up on it, I would simply wipe it out
>> and start over without shedding a tear.
>>
>> Anyway, I would like to totally remove KDE on this system.
>> However, with my initial tinkering, it didn't seem like it would
>> be as easy as removing a kernel.
>>
>> I am hoping to avoid the loss of anything that would impact my
>> current set-up as far as Gnome is concerned. My hard drive is
>> already 1/3 filled, and I am looking to free up some space.
>>
>> Is there a 'easy' way to remove KDE from my system (from the
>> command line)? Thanks in advance for any advice.
>>
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