[ F21 ] How to remove GNOME

[Martin Cigorraga]

Hello Sam,

Yes, it seems that some packages in Fedora pulls down more dependencies
than I would like; for instance removing the GNOME Desktop group (if it
actually existed) should only remove everything GNOME-related stuff and
only that, not whatever else on what it may depend. Conversely, one should
be able to install X or Wayland separately - at least that's how I used
with Arch and Gentoo albeit RHEL seems more close to Debian in this regard.

About the question I made, I think it is quite self-explanatory: there are
groups for every-other Desktop Environment (even one for Window Managers)
but there's none for GNOME Desktop. Of course I believe one could go and
remove leftovers by hand, what I say is that's strange - just to say
something - that there isn't a meta-group that takes care of that.

Regards.

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com>
wrote:

> Martin Cigorraga writes:
>
>  Hi all,
>>
>>
>> I'm a newcomer to Fedora and still learning its ways so excuse me if my
>> question sounds stupid.
>> Now, I want to remove GNOME from my install as I use i3; from what I saw
>> there's no gnome-group or similar goup available, how should I proceed?
>>
>
> You want to remove Gnome, and then what? Without Gnome, you do not have an
> X desktop.
>
> Perhaps you want to switch from Gnome to another window manager, like XFCE
> or KDE. Well, after installing the appropriate group, you should have an
> option to switch your session to the new window manager, when logging in.
>
> Although, in my case, when I finally had enough of Gnome, and switched to
> XFCE, I found that my login user environment was too polluted with various
> Gnome-related flotsam, even after I logged into XFCE. To make a clean
> break, I had to create a new userid, move/change ownership of all documents
> and files, to the new userid, then delete the old one.
>
> Of course, all of the old baggage still remains installed, after that. A
> small waste of disk space, mostly. I should, one of these days, go over and
> clean up as much of the unused Gnome stuff as I can find.
>
>
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-Martin
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