RE: Gnome and E from sources

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Thompson [mailto:jamest@math.ksu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 12:17 PM
> To: Gregory Leblanc
> Subject: RE: Gnome and E from sources
> 
> 
> 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.

The problem with that is that you don't really know if you've gotten all of
the packages out, (since some of the GNOME related packages aren't called
gnome-anything).  
	Greg