Hi. We're about to install some RHEL 5.1 servers, and are discussing whether to exclude Gnome or not. The applications that are to be hosted on the servers are java-based, and we were thinking we might simply install X libraries and firefox as these are the only (known) requirements for the applications to run. However, exluding Gnome from the installation can get rather complicated due to the different dependencies all over the place. And if we find that we need to install additional packages later on it might be enough to pull inn the rest of Gnome to resolve dependencies. So in a nutshell, we're stuck with these options: - Install Gnome. Patch the systems relatively often. - Exclude Gnome. Possibly install (part of) Gnome later on. I guess if the systems were not RHEL based, but, say Debian, it would be much easier to exclude Gnome, as RHEL seems to be tightly integrated with Gnome. We'd very much like some feedback on this issue. Thanks. Regards, kenneho -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
