On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 13:19, Kenneth Illingsworth wrote: > Thanks. > > I believe that I made it through about half of those, and then gave up. I was just > surprised that GNOME wasn't somehow more 'self-contained' like the MySQL or Webmin > rpm's were.
Gnome is in many parts for two reasons 1. Chunks of it (glib, gtk, imlib, ORbit, audiofile, lixml,gdk-pixbuf, libglade) are not just for Gnome 2. Its much easier to maintain a set of packages and to pick what you want to install. Tools like apt-get, gnorpm and up2date can figure out what to install for you. up2date -u gnome-core should get you roughly to the right place
