groupinstall XFCE

[Rahul Sundaram]

Alan Evans wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Alan Evans wrote:
>>> In the mean time, is there something I can do to circumvent the error
>>> and get XFCE installed (short of "yum install <29 packages>")?
>> # yum remove im-chooser
>> # yum groupinstall "XFCE"
>> # yum install im-chooser im-chooser-xfce
> 
> Holy moley! remove im-chooser wants to take 23 dependant packages with
> it. (all of them "scim*" - I don't know what that's for, even after
> checking yum info.) Should that worry me?

How about

# yum groupinstall "XFCE" --exclude=im-chooser\*

> Also, is it relevant im-chooser-xfce is not on the list of packages
> for the groupinstall?

It is a conditional install package but optional (ie) it will only be 
part of the transcation if you already have im-chooser installed.

Rahul