Re: Why do so many packaged rely on gnome-panel?

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On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 04:14:41 +1800
"Arthur Pemberton" <pemboa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I just installed FC6 tonight. I chose KDE over Gnome. And I just
> thought to check what exactly was on my system and if I could clean it
> up a bit. During my poking around I realised that 71 packages rely on
> gnome-keyring.
> 
> The name, and the description in the RPM suggest that this a password
> management tool. Removing this would take with it: libs, openoffice,
> koffice, 4 system config tools, 2 out of 3 of my browsers , to sound
> engines and 2 media players to name a few things.
> 
> There are a lot of deps that seem strange to me, I suppose in my
> ignorance.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
> 
> Another example would be tat removign gnome-panel cascades into having
> to remove kerry (KDE beagle front end) although beagle seems to be
> sepeated into a daemon and a gui package , and gnome-panel seems to be
> a gui component.
> 
> So instead of filing  a ton og BZs and making a fool of myself, I'm
> asking questions  here.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
I have virtually the same question except in reverse. I prefer Gnome
yet I too have a number of dep from kde. It seems you can not have one
with out the other.


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