I'm busily weighing Mate and xfce4 against my uses; with luck, I may eventually need only a rock-bottom few Gnome apps. Is there any way to eliminate the rest of Gnome by the shovelful instead of one app at a time with Yumex?
On 12/18/2014 12:40 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I'm busily weighing Mate and xfce4 against my uses; with luck, I may eventually need only a rock-bottom few Gnome apps. Is there any way to eliminate the rest of Gnome by the shovelful instead of one app at a time with Yumex?
Yumex is a GUI front end for yum and it allows you to select as many programs to install, update or remove as you need and carries out all of the operations together.
On 12/18/2014 12:40 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I'm busily weighing Mate and xfce4 against my uses; with luck, I may eventually need only a rock-bottom few Gnome apps. Is there any way to eliminate the rest of Gnome by the shovelful instead of one app at a time with Yumex?
I use Xfce myself. It was closest to the old Gnome 2 look and feel at the time I made my choice.
I detest the bloatware that is Gnome 3. I was never comfortable with KDE and I've not tried Mate.
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On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 20:40 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I'm busily weighing Mate and xfce4 against my uses; with luck, I may eventually need only a rock-bottom few Gnome apps. Is there any way to eliminate the rest of Gnome by the shovelful instead of one app at a time with Yumex?
Just don't install the Gnome "product". Set up your system as you like it, then use yum to add any Gnome apps you specifically want. They will still drag in a certain amount of libraries etc. of course.
poc
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:32:44 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 20:40 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I'm busily weighing Mate and xfce4 against my uses; with luck, I may eventually need only a rock-bottom few Gnome apps. Is there any way to eliminate the rest of Gnome by the shovelful instead of one app at a time with Yumex?
Just don't install the Gnome "product". Set up your system as you like it, then use yum to add any Gnome apps you specifically want. They will still drag in a certain amount of libraries etc. of course.
Unfortunately, at least three of my machines are already running F21 -- by virtue of fedup. So there are an unknown (but fairly large) number of .rpms on them that used to be sine qua non, and are now cruft. On the older ones in particular, I think I can gain significant space if I can sweep all that neo-cruft away.
Aside to Rick Stevens: just as I used to use a few KDE apps in Gnome2, I think I'm now going to use a few nice ones from Mate in xfce4, or maybe even vice-versa. Try it; you'll like it.
On Sun, 2014-12-21 at 18:41 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 23:32:44 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2014-12-18 at 20:40 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
I'm busily weighing Mate and xfce4 against my uses; with luck, I may eventually need only a rock-bottom few Gnome apps. Is there any way to eliminate the rest of Gnome by the shovelful instead of one app at a time with Yumex?
Just don't install the Gnome "product". Set up your system as you like it, then use yum to add any Gnome apps you specifically want. They will still drag in a certain amount of libraries etc. of course.
Unfortunately, at least three of my machines are already running F21 -- by virtue of fedup. So there are an unknown (but fairly large) number of .rpms on them that used to be sine qua non, and are now cruft. On the older ones in particular, I think I can gain significant space if I can sweep all that neo-cruft away.
If you add clean_requirements_on_remove=1 to /etc/yum.conf and then yum erase whatever looks superfluous then yum will clean up a lot of cruft.
Aside to Rick Stevens: just as I used to use a few KDE apps in Gnome2, I think I'm now going to use a few nice ones from Mate in xfce4, or maybe even vice-versa. Try it; you'll like it.
I did tentatively try it once but I need some Gnome stuff for Evolution and it too much effort to get all the ducks in a row. I'm reasonably happy with KDE now as I have a fast machine.
poc
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