Steve Searle wrote, at 05/28/2009 12:06 AM +9:00:
Around 03:59pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Rahul Sundaram scrawled:
On 05/27/2009 08:21 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I've tried the big hammer more than once -- told yum to remove gnome-screensaver; but it always threatens to take xscreensaver with it.
Is there anything I can do about this usurpation? Or if not, might some developer in an idle moment take a hard look at the dependencies?
I don't know what the trouble is. Here I go, on a system with GNOME install, I install xscreensaver
Then I remove gnome-screensaver
No problems. Show us your output
Note, I am not the OP, but for me:
# yum remove gnome-screensaver
...
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================ Package Arch Version Repository Size ================================================================================ Removing: gnome-screensaver i386 2.24.1-2.fc10 installed 3.4 M Removing for dependencies: fedora-screensaver-theme noarch 1.0.0-3.fc10 installed 18 k fedorainfinity-screensaver-theme noarch 1.0.0-1.fc8 installed 102 k xscreensaver-extras-gss i386 1:5.08-5.fc10 installed 43 k xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss i386 1:5.08-5.fc10 installed 28 k
I don't want to lose these dependencies.
Steve
xscreensaver{,-gl}-extras-gss is not needed when you want to use xscreensaver. They are needed when you want to use xscreensaver hacks with gnome-screensaver.
Regards, Mamoru