On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 20:26 -0700, john wendel wrote: > I'm happily using LXDE on my F11 system, and I thought I'd remove Gnome, > using "yum remove gnome\*". > > Well, it was not to be. Yum decide to remove parts of LXDE, Firefox, > Thunderbird, Java, abiword, most of the "system" admin utilities, and > about 50 other programs that I would think have nothing to do with Gnome. > > Am I stupid or what? Why would Fedora's Firefox have a Gnome dependency > when I'm sure that the Mozilla version doesn't? Are these "real" > dependencies or packaging artifacts? > > I don't think I like this disto as much as I once did. > > John > Have you tried: yum groupremove GNOME Desktop Environment -- ======================================================================= If it doesn't smell yet, it's pretty fresh. -- Dave Johnson, on dead seagulls ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines