Re: looking before I leap (bye gnome!)
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 "-" on
all of the gnome-* packages. Other times, I would hit "-" on
something like libgnorbit0 or libgnorba27 and then it would list
all of the dependencies, and I would hit "-" on all of them.
Then of course, when hitting return in delsect on the "remove
unwanted software" those packages were actually removed from my
system.
I actually mapped out all of the dependencies on paper once, while
trying to get newer gnome stuff up and running. When I tried
(several times) to get things back, I was installing from my
win95/vfat partition using newer files I downloaded, using the
"dpkg -i" option, then when everything was there, using the
"dpkg --configure --pending" command. I'm get over my head when
trying to get (newer) enlightenment-conf, which needs freetype2
and libc6 newer than what I can find :( I am not quite up to
speed on the glibc ties to lib6c yet.
In any case, the procedures above got rid of most, if not all, of
the gnome related stuff.
Hope this helps,
John
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