Is there an easy way to keep running metacity instead of gnome-shell?

Sat Mar 12 15:10:57 UTC 2011

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:31:19 -0600,
  Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> wrote:
> Now that gnome-panel is requiring gnome-shell, I can't just not install
> gnome-shell to continue running metacity. Is there an easy way to continue
> running metacity (maybe with gsettings)?

I found the information at:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3#Features

Currently the method is to edit
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session
and change IsRunnableHelper's value to /bin/false .