[CentOS] CentOS 4 - prevent X from installing?

Tue Apr 10 15:48:51 UTC 2007
John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>

Tony Mountifield wrote:
> So, I've just gone through a enw CentOS 4.4 install. I selected the "Custom"
> installation type, and then in the part for selecting which packages to
> install, I specifically did NOT select X, Gnome or KDE, nor any of the
> graphical tools.
> 
> However, when it finished installing and rebooted, I still ended up with
> X installed, a graphical login screen and default run level of 5.
> 
> Does anyone know which default packages might have caused X Windows to have
> been dragged in?
> 
> I'll do some digging, but I had an idea this might be a common problem.

Some years ago, ghostscript did something of the kind.

You could try "rpm --erase" for unwanted packages and see what blocks you.
There's also '--requires' which may illuminate matters, without removing 
stuff.




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