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 <mr...@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. > > > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org > > -- -Martin
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