Proposed F19 Feature: Cinnamon as Default Desktop

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Feb 9 08:59:38 UTC 2013


Debarshi Ray wrote:

>> Keep in mind that to get to the point of installing an "alternative-only
>> DE", in current Fedora, you normally first have a full blown Gnome3
>> installed, which is close to impossible to get rid of.
> 
> [citation needed]

There's no straightforward way to remove GNOME: "yum groupremove
gnome-desktop" does NOT work, it removes half of the distro. (In fact, "yum 
groupremove" is entirely useless as implemented right now, let's see whether 
the "groups as objects" feature will make it work any better or even worse.)

        Kevin Kofler



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