I'm in dependency hell trying to install the core packages for gnome :-0 NetworkManager is recommended which recommends ConsoleKit which recommends Pam. I can't get Pam to compile let alone install and I don't think I need it anyways. Another issue, NetworkManager supposedly requires wireless-tools, but this system will never use wireless.
Back out to GeoClue, it recommends NetworkManager if installing gnome. Back out again to WebKitGTK+, GeoClue is listed as a requirement. Do I need any of this at all? The dependency chain is rooted at gnome-online-accounts. Do I even need gnome-online-accounts and if I do, can I safely ignore WebKitGTK+ and everything under it? I don't like NetworkManager, I'll handle the network interfaces without it quite well thank you. Some of these gnome core packages seem unnecessary to install Gnome. For example, I don't need to check the weather forecast or support wacom tablets. Another application I don't want is evolution where I suspect that I don't need evolution-data-server. What is required according to the book may not be required at all to install just Gnome. I have stored all of the packages that I've installed specifically to install gnome in a single directory and I should be able to uninstall these packages fairly easily. I've been working my way through Chapter 30 where I'm roughly half way through. -- Michael Robinson -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
