Re: Gnome has disaapeared in FC6 and only KDE remains.-SOLVED

[John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:32 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Monday 06 November 2006 13:00, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 21:43 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > > > > The one time I tried pirut I found that unchecking a line meant 
> > > > > in-fact
> > > > > that the package/group was to be removed.  I have not used it since.
> > > > I agree with your experience. I think Rahul is wrong in this case.
> > > This is standard behaviour in our least-favourite OS.  It could be 
> > > said that you are asking for it to be  uninstalled if you uncheck it.
> > Exactly, which is why pirut is on my "do not use" list.
>
> Pirut has similar behavior as Yumex or Synaptic for example. Unselecting 
> a package in the package list clearly means remove the software in all 
> these package managers.
>
> Rahul

Actually, in Synaptic, unselecting a package means right click, 
navigate a menu, see a pop-up window telling you what is going to be 
uninstalled, and click OK or cancel. A far cry from "unchecking a 
line". It isn't something you can do by accident.

Regards,

John