--- "ne..." <guhvies@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/2/06, Globe Trotter <itsme_410@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > --- Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Globe Trotter wrote: > > > > It > > > > would really help, if one could install FC with xfce and no gnome or > KDE. > > > If > > > > gnome or KDE needs to be installed just to get things like firefox or > > > others > > > > working, I don't see where XFCE fits in. > > > > > > You can already do that in Fedora Core 6. In the installer select Fedora > > > Extras, unselect GNOME and you should be done. Firefox does not depend > > > on any particular desktop environment. > > > > > > Rahul > > > > > > > Thanks, I tried this. But you still end up with a huge amount of gnome > stuff. > > If you do a yum remove gnome-\*, almost everything goes, including firefox. > Thank you for stating this. I had to go thru all the options and > deselect all the GNOME stuff that it wanted to install even tho I > explicitly stated I wanted only KDE. And to add insult to injury, it > set the web-browser & e-mail icon thingy to Firefox & Evolution. Well > I use KDE and for me that mean Konqueror as browser & KMail/Kontact > for e-mail. Suffice to say I had already rpm -e'd Firefox and made > sure nothing to do with Evolution was on my system. > > The only thing that can be said of FC6 is that it seems quite fast > compared to FC5 & 4. I agree with this: which is why it could be faster, if it used something low-resource-intensive such as XFCE. For those of us interested in computing, ie actually making the machine solve some difficult problem, it would be really useful! Best, Trotter ____________________________________________________________________________________ Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited (http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited)
