Shaun wrote:
Hi all,
I'm a bit of a newbie to CentOS though not Linux in general. I come from an apt-get package management mentality and I've had a few issues where package management actions haven't quite done what I'd expect. So I'm guessing it's user error! :)
Personally, having struggled a few times with apt-get (and trying to remove old kernels in ubuntu! *ack*), I like yum.
I installed GNOME and then decided that I wanted to install Xfce to try it out. I decided to then remove it with just 'yum remove' after playing with it a bit. It seemed to uninstall a lot of GNOME stuff (presumably that they had in common) and so the next time I tried to use GNOME it looked different and was missing a few components. Should I have just reverted the install of Xfce to undo it so that those dependencies would've have been touched or is this just how yum works?
Why uninstall, unless you're short of disk space? You can always just change your window manager. And gnome has a ludicrous number of interdependencies.
mark