On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 18:41 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:32:44 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 20:40 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > >> I'm busily weighing Mate and xfce4 against my uses; with luck, I > >> may eventually need only a rock-bottom few Gnome apps. Is there any way > >> to eliminate the rest of Gnome by the shovelful instead of one app at a > >> time with Yumex? > > > > Just don't install the Gnome "product". Set up your system as you like > > it, then use yum to add any Gnome apps you specifically want. They will > > still drag in a certain amount of libraries etc. of course. > > Unfortunately, at least three of my machines are already running > F21 -- by virtue of fedup. So there are an unknown (but fairly large) > number of .rpms on them that used to be sine qua non, and are now cruft. > On the older ones in particular, I think I can gain significant space if > I can sweep all that neo-cruft away. If you add clean_requirements_on_remove=1 to /etc/yum.conf and then yum erase whatever looks superfluous then yum will clean up a lot of cruft. > Aside to Rick Stevens: just as I used to use a few KDE apps in > Gnome2, I think I'm now going to use a few nice ones from Mate in xfce4, > or maybe even vice-versa. Try it; you'll like it. I did tentatively try it once but I need some Gnome stuff for Evolution and it too much effort to get all the ducks in a row. I'm reasonably happy with KDE now as I have a fast machine. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
