On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 09:46:38AM -0500, Steven W. Orr wrote: > On Monday, Dec 29th 2008 at 23:21 -0000, quoth Dave Feustel: > > =>Is it possible to run X with no KDE software installed? > =>If yes, how would the KDE software be deleted? > =>(And how would it be restored if I changed my mind?) > > Sure! A quick look at things in the Everything directory that have the > magic letter "wm" in them shows twm, fvwm, icewm, pekwm, wmx and after > that I'm sure there are more that don't have wm in theiur names ;-) > > You're welcome to delete as many packages as you like and then reinstall > them later on, but first a few basic questions need to be asked: > > Why are you deleting them? I'm doing an experiment to see if removing KDE files reduces the number of incidences of apparent security exploits ocurring on my system. >Is it to see how much space you can save? How > many packages you can delete? Your better bet would be to use rpm to > answer the questions about dependancies to first get an idea of what > you're trying to do. What's a good place to read up on how RPM works? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
