Why do so many packaged rely on gnome-panel?

[Arthur Pemberton]

I just installed FC6 tonight. I chose KDE over Gnome. And I just
thought to check what exactly was on my system and if I could clean it
up a bit. During my poking around I realised that 71 packages rely on
gnome-keyring.

The name, and the description in the RPM suggest that this a password
management tool. Removing this would take with it: libs, openoffice,
koffice, 4 system config tools, 2 out of 3 of my browsers , to sound
engines and 2 media players to name a few things.

There are a lot of deps that seem strange to me, I suppose in my ignorance.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Another example would be tat removign gnome-panel cascades into having
to remove kerry (KDE beagle front end) although beagle seems to be
sepeated into a daemon and a gui package , and gnome-panel seems to be
a gui component.

So instead of filing  a ton og BZs and making a fool of myself, I'm
asking questions  here.

Thank you.

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