Dan wrote:
Why the hell does a boot manager, grub, require a graphical toolkit?
The only way I could remove gtk2 was to remove grub. Example, to now
install grub:
Installing:
grub i386 0.97-13 fedora 489 k
Installing for dependencies:
fedora-logos noarch 6.0.98-3.fc7 fedora 5.0 M
gtk2 i386 2.10.13-1.fc7 updates 6.8 M
gtk2-engines i386 2.10.2-2.fc7 updates 413 k
redhat-artwork i386 7.0.0-9.fc7 fedora 6.1 M
A little bit of querying the installed packages on my system told me
that grub needs fedora-logos just for the splash screen, ie.
/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz . If you look at the actual dependencies of
grub, you'll see it needs system-logos which is provided by
fedora-logos. fedora-logos depends on redhat-artwork which in turn
depends on gtk2 and gtk2-engines!
[veejay@marvin ~]$ rpm -qf /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
fedora-logos-6.0.98-3.fc7
[veejay@marvin ~]$ rpm -qR fedora-logos
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
hicolor-icon-theme
redhat-artwork
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) <= 3.0.3-1
[veejay@marvin ~]$ rpm -qR redhat-artwork
gtk2-engines >= 2.9.4-2
system-logos
gnome-themes
gtk2 >= 2.9.0
/bin/sh
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
[veejay@marvin ~]$
Maybe you can manually install the grub rpm with nodeps option. AFAIR,
grub needs splash.xpm.gz purely for eye candy.
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Regards,
विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar)
Registered Linux User #374218
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)
Linux 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 x86_64
