Re: Why are KDE and Gnome mixed together?

From: marc (gmane_at_auxbuss.com)
Date: 11/25/05

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    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! 

    -- 
Best,
Marc
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