On 11/5/06, lostson <lostson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Saturday 04 November 2006 14:36, Norm wrote: > 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. It depends on what apps you run, for instance if you are a gnome user but use amarok it will require some kde deps. Same with kde, many of the fedora tools are gnome based
About that. I thought the system-config tools weren't even suppose to rely on a DE. Just Gtk. -- Fedora Core 5 and proud
