On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 08:54:45PM -0700, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > 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. > If you aren't going to use wireless, you don't want NetworkManager unless something else *requires* it (I think gdm is in that category). > 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 can't tell what you plan to do with your desktop, but most people won't need gnome-online-accounts. Whether you can ignore WebkitGTK+ is a different question (it's also used for epiphany). On my own build I have geoclue, but not NetworkManager. > 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. The book has all of gnome. If you wish to "install gnome" that implies you will be installing all of it :) What you probably want to do is work out which gnome applications you wish to install, then work back through their dependencies. If something is *recommended*, you can try doing without it - but if things break, you get to keep both pieces. Also, some of the functionality (e.g. help, from yelp) requires other parts of the gnome infrastructure. > > 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. > Hmm, installing gnome somewhere other than /usr (or /usr/local, I suppose) might not be fun. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
