can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Has anyone done this before ? thank you Joao -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to remove (gnome is actually dozens of pakcages). Side effects

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to

Re: wifi without applets [WAS] Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
Jerome, On 14/11/11 12:19, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: [...] I am still currently unable to manage network-manager through the nm-applet as user. [...] concerning the wireless network connect:

Re: wifi without applets [WAS] Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello: On 14/11/11 12:34, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: Jerome, On 14/11/11 12:19, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: On 14/11/11 12:08, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: [...] I am still currently unable to manage network-manager through the nm-applet as

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to remove (gnome is actually dozens of

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Joao Ferreira Gmail
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 08:14 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Lorenzo Sutton wrote: On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to remove (gnome is actually dozens of pakcages). Side

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:19:59 +, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Or should I expect any side impacts ? Has anyone done this before ? If hard disk space is not a constraint, why not installing XFCE4 alongside gnome?

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Patrick Bartek
--- On Mon, 11/14/11, Joao Ferreira Gmail joao.miguel.c.ferre...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Short answer: No. It will break your system to remove/purge the gnome meta-package. Even uninstalling the gnome packages

Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?

2011-11-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 14 nov 11, 10:19:59, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote: Hello all, I'm going to start using xfce4. Can I safelly apt-get remove/purge gnome Haven't done that in a while, but some things to consider: Xfce does not have: - a graphical package manager (keep synaptic, update-manager-gnome,