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.
