Getting back to your original question:
Allegedly, on or about 24 January 2018, InvalidPath sent:
> I run Plasma specifically, and in chasing down some journalctl errors
> today I found a few that were errors generated by gnome dependencies.
> Since I dont use Gnome I want to remove it. However running dnf
> remove @gnome-desktop also want's to remove things like qemu, and
> seabios. Two VERY IMPORTANT things that I use on a daily basis with
> my WIn10 kvm guest.
>
> Is it possible to remove gnome but leave the unused and dependant
> packages?
The usual way to simplistically deal with this kind of thing is to:
1. Remove the offending package(s), gnome, etc. (So long as it doesn't
involve removing the entire OS.)
2. Reinstall the wanted package(s), qemu, seabios, etc.
3. Put up with the extra stuff that gets dragged in.
Sure, you ain't gonna use them, but trying to forcefully remove things
and manually deal with dependencies (whether they're actually needed
for what you need to do, or just that other things insist on dragging
them in), is a major pain. And, you'll be faced with that pain every
time you update or install new packages. Not to mention the strong
chance of you borking your system.
The three steps I've mentioned (above), should be all that you need to
do, providing that you haven't already borked your system.
Some of the errors you're seeing logged probably are just programs
checking for some *feature* then moaning about it not being there,
rather than being an error message about it not being able to do it's
job. This can be ignored, or filtered out.
By way of example, every time I play a file with mplayer, it complains
about a few things:
do_connect: could not connect to socket
connect: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
It's looking for things that I don't use, want, nor need. It's just
checking for things that it could be doing. So I ignore those
messages.
Now, on the other hand, a message about unable to play the file I want
to, those messages I do pay attention to.
If you really don't want any gnome files on your system, the other
approach is to do a fresh install from a non-gnome installation disk
(Mate, KDE, LXDE, whatever floats your boat). And they'll come with
the bare minimum of other system files included. But the moment you
install some Gnome application, you're going to get a boatload of Gnome
files to go with it. Perhaps not as much as a full Gnome installation,
perhaps so many that it's not worth the fight to be rid of them.
The situation's not solely gnome. KDE comes with a lot of baggage too.
So much that I only install one desktop on my systems. At the moment,
it's the Mate desktop (which behaves like old Gnome 2).
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