The GNOME group contains too many packages

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On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Ryan Rix <ry at n.rix.si> wrote:
> It's a known fact that groupremove is ridiculously broken, and that DVD
> install if all you want is KDE is also broken. Kevin has presented some ideas
> on how to fix the DVD and they sound good, but no one has really stepped up to
> actually do it.
>
> On Sun 27 December 2009 1:09:36 am Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>> The GNOME Desktop package group simply contains too many packages.
>> There (seems) to be no good way of removing GNOME from an install in
>> order to install another DE, such as KDE. A groupremove even pulls out
>> the kmod-nvidia files. Against what do I file a bug report about this?
>> Once again I find myself with a DVD install which with the default
>> GNOME which I want to turn to a KDE install, and the excess bandwidth
>> and time is ridiculous.


The thing is there are some cases where the LiveCD doesn't work (in
this case, I need to use the vesa drivers)

Isn't it as simply as only including leaf packages in the group?


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