On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 16:23 -0500, Peter Horst wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > >On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 14:46 -0500, Peter Horst wrote: > >>>[snip] > > > >You can first of all see if they're currently installed: > > > >$ rpm -q gtk2 mesa-libGL > > > >If they are, you can check what package(s) requires them by asking yum > >to remove them: > > > ># yum remove gtk2 mesa-libGL > > > >You probably won't want to actually remove these packages, so be sure > >not to use "yum -y" and be careful to respond "N" when prompted whether > >to go ahead with the removal or not. > > > > > Thanks - very helpful. The gtk2 libs, for example, are required by a > whole bunch of stuff I didn't want, and didn't think I had anyway, such > as Gnome. The only kicker is that they're also required for > system-config-*, which are useful little programs I think. Would you > happen to know whether they do anything that can't be done by other > means? I would have to guess not... > > In any case, I now know what to do, so thanks very much - The system-config-* tools are just convenient GUIs that sit on top of lower-level tools or manipulate configuration files. I don't use them anyway. Paul.
