Cinnamon desktop

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Allegedly, on or about 09 January 2014, Pete Travis sent:
> > I don't understand this. They should not conflict. You can install
> > both and choose your preference of the day when you login.
>
> But why install something you don't intend to use?  I don't use KDE, so
> I don't have it installed.  If I did, then I'd have many megabytes of my
> bandwidth chewed through any time I did a simple "yum update."  Not to
> mention the potential for having more problems with my computer, simply
> by having more software there, if it's not a *completely* dormant thing.
>

If you don't use it, remove it (or inhibit it being updated via yum
configuration). I think Tim's point is that you don't need an exploding
number of spins for every desktop out there, of which there are many.
Personally I use KDE but do much of my mailing with Evolution, so I have
the necessary Gnome libraries for that. One desktop doesn't rule out using
bits of another. Having a DE-specific spin is a convenience but is in no
way a requirement.

poc
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