Re: Why are KDE and Gnome mixed together?
Edward C. Jones said...
> I installed stable (3.1) and got a mix of KDE and Gnome. I removed most
> of Gnome and upgraded (easily!) to unstable. I still get the mix. Why
> are KDE and Gnome mixed together? Where is this mix and its
> configuration documented? Why was this done?
I guess that you selected the "Desktop" option when installing - like
most folk do. I believe that this installs both the 'kde' and 'gnome'
meta packages. These both pull in a bunch of other meta packages, and
these, in turn,....
If you uninstall random packages using other than aptitude - a really
good tool via the command line, imo, though I can't deal with the curses
version - then the dependent packages may well not be removed. This can
lead to a bit of a mess. One way to sort it is to do:
# aptitude purge kde gnome
then
# aptitude install kde-core gnome-core (or gnome-desktop-environment)
then add the meta packages and packages that you need. (You can find the
next level via: aptitude show kde, etc.)
If there is a tool to show the packages recursively loaded by any meta
package, then I'd also like to see it. As it is, I keep my own list.
This could all be done easily in a graphic tool with expanding trees -
curses aptitude is not close to that, imo. Instead, we have a lot of
tools that seemingly do the same thing, but slightly differently and
it's not at all clear which does what - even if you do read every bit of
documentation and google for a day or so. Technically, this is called: a
bit of a mess!
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Best,
Marc
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