On 2013-01-18, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:55:15 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > (...) > >> Do I really need gtk2 running on a server anyway? > > Only if: > > 1) runlevel is 5 (for the GUI login) or you log into the console and then use > startx or xinit to fire up the X Server. > 2) you run GTK2 programs via SSH X-Server Tunneling -- you don't need it > for old-school xterms (eg xterm-215-8.el5_4.1), but you do need it for > gnome-terminals (eg gnome-terminal-2.16.0-5.3.el5_6.1). (...) I would add: 3) Another package requires it. The cups package, for example, requires gtk2 and other X-related stuff. So if you want to run a headless print server, gtk2 has to be installed. -- Liam