Remove Gnome desktop on F18 ?

[Donald Buchan]

For what it's worth, under Fedora 17 I did:

yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"

However, as Christoph said, it removes all sorts of things that you
*might* want elsewhere.  Having gone through a similar process changing
gnome to XFCE on a centos box using really crappy box about a year ago,
one of the things I learned was to have the ssh server active on the
target machine, and a client machine that can ssh in.  Oh, and to do what
Christoph said, which is to install the desired desktop environment before
rebooting, but after removing the Gnome desktop.  Or at least to repeat
the "groupinstall" command for the new desktop environment.

> Hi,
>
> I'm curious, if it's a possibility to remove entirely GNOME 3 from F18.
>
> I've tried via '# yum groupremove GNOME\ Desktop' but it looked like it
> wants to wipe out whole system, because it ended with:
>
>
> ...
> --> Restarting Dependency Resolution with new changes.
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Trying to remove "systemd", which is protected
> Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected
>
> So the question is, how can I remove Gnome-shell (with all
> dependencies) ?
>
> Regards,
>
> ---
> Jozef
>
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