On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:00:02 +0100 Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > A group in Fedora includes optional dependencies and the Xfce group > > includes things like GDM and NetworkManager-gnome which will pull in > > other dependencies. > > I found at least one of the offenders: xfce4-xfapplet-plugin Requires: > gnome-panel which Requires: pretty much all of GNOME. (And it has to > because it's a wrapper which allows using GNOME applets in XFCE.) Yep. Perhaps we should drop this from the Xfce comps group. :( > In F9 GA, there was also a Requires: gnome-panel in NM-gnome, but > that one got fixed in F9 updates and F10 (which also helped KDE). > > But none of these show up in the yum groupinstall output, so there > must be another offender. gdm is a big one. It now basically requires a gnome desktop to work. Perhaps we should look at pulling in kdm for Xfce. ;) > But indeed, not all the gnome-* packages are really GNOME, some are > libs which are used by a lot of stuff, e.g. gnome-keyring. Packages > like gnome-desktop, gnome-panel, control-center etc. are GNOME > itself, it's when you're dragging these in that you have a problem. Yep. > Kevin Kofler kevin
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