RE: Gnome and E from sources

[James Thompson <jamest math ksu edu>]

On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> those.  The biggest hassle was trying to get rid of all the dependencies so
> that you could actually get them all removed.  Now if I could just get GNOME
> to use the right WM, I wouldn't have to be writing this from NT.  :)  


Just use the --nodeps option with rpm when removing packages to prevent
the dependecy check. As long as you're replacing packages item for item
with tarballs and you do a ldconfig for the libs you should be OK.
Well, it worked for me at least.

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