Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-18 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, I don't suppose you would be so kind as to outline the steps you took? I really don't hate gnome or anything (prefer it to kde) and might want to put it back sometime... you sound like you have some experience at this... thanks! I just waded through the dselect package list, hitting -

looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread tf
Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed. I also stumbled on the fact that, for some reason, apt-get install mc also gets rid of them. unless one of you guys yells at me, this is probably the method that I will use, as I want

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread John Miskinis
Hello, What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? I have only seen the gnome that comes on the Debian 2.1 CD, I have not seen later versions. I believe gnome is in its infancy stage at present. From what I have read about it on the web, the big deal appears to be that a full set of

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread Ed Cogburn
tf wrote: [snip] What the heck is the big deal about gnome anyway? Was this flame-bait really necessary? If you don't like it, don't use it. Either way, don't make a big deal about it. -- Ed C.

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread David Z. Maze
tf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: tf Hey guys, I'm going to get rid of gnome by dpkg -purging all four tf of the task-gnome-* debs that I installed. That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those

Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)

1999-10-17 Thread kaynjay
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/17/99 at 09:37 AM, David Z. Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: That's not going to get rid of the GNOME stuff. Those packages just depend on lots of other packages; you need to actually go off and remove those packages too (generally gnome-*) to really purge GNOME.