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I'm wondering if it's possible, through pacman and/or yaourt, to create something akin to Gentoo's "gnome-light" ebuild -- that would allow one to install only the basic components required for Gnome to start up, without the overhead associated with the full Gnome desktop.
I can install the components I want with pacman -Sd, for example, but then I don't get the essential dependencies (the ones that I actually want). Is there a way around this?
Harry
Last edited by cautha (2008-06-19 17:56:35)
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From the site I linked:
This subset is intended to include the programs necessary for basic desktop functionality without any additional applications. It basically includes gnome-session, gnome-panel, gnome-terminal, nautilus, metacity, and yelp. This is a session manager, a start menu/panel, a terminal program, a desktop, a file browser, a window manager, and a help browser.
When I try pacman -S gnome, it seems like I get a lot more than that. Or am I misunderstanding something?
Harry
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From the site I linked:
This subset is intended to include the programs necessary for basic desktop functionality without any additional applications. It basically includes gnome-session, gnome-panel, gnome-terminal, nautilus, metacity, and yelp. This is a session manager, a start menu/panel, a terminal program, a desktop, a file browser, a window manager, and a help browser.
When I try pacman -S gnome, it seems like I get a lot more than that. Or am I misunderstanding something?
Harry
here you go:
~% pacman -Qg gnome phrodo_00@Wintermute
gnome epiphany
gnome gnome-applets
gnome gnome-backgrounds
gnome gnome-control-center
gnome gnome-desktop
gnome gnome-icon-theme
gnome gnome-media
gnome gnome-mime-data
gnome gnome-mount
gnome gnome-panel
gnome gnome-screensaver
gnome gnome-session
gnome gnome-settings-daemon
gnome gnome-themes
gnome gnome-volume-manager
gnome gnome2-user-docs
gnome libgail-gnome
gnome metacity
gnome nautilus
gnome yelp
so you get a webbrowser, some artwork, some configuration apps, a panel, a screensaver, a session-manager, automounting, a help system, a file manager and a window manager... I'm guessing gnome-light also has artwork, auromounting, artwork, and configuration apps
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Thanks a lot!
This helps. Tomorrow I'm going to begin the monumental task of teaching my grandmother how to use Linux. I might get flamed for using a distro like Arch for that purpose, but IMHO it's just a matter of choosing the right tools to go on top of it; and I wanted to start from square one, the same way I set up KDE on my machines. It could be worse: I could be using LFS.
I'll be sure to post about my progress
Harry
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Thanks a lot!
This helps. Tomorrow I'm going to begin the monumental task of teaching my grandmother how to use Linux. I might get flamed for using a distro like Arch for that purpose, but IMHO it's just a matter of choosing the right tools to go on top of it; and I wanted to start from square one, the same way I set up KDE on my machines. It could be worse: I could be using LFS.
I'll be sure to post about my progress
Harry
I would flame you if you do not choose Arch above all others.
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I'm pretty confused... I managed to get Gnome up on my laptop, but now, no matter how many times I try (purging the cache and so on, and starting over, and uncommenting more mirrors in my mirrorlist), pacman -S gnome always fails on yelp and xulrunner. The error is something like, "File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)".
Harry
Last edited by cautha (2008-06-13 17:24:56)
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I'm pretty confused... I managed to get Gnome up on my laptop, but now, no matter how many times I try (purging the cache and so on, and starting over, and uncommenting more mirrors in my mirrorlist), pacman -S gnome always fails on yelp and xulrunner. The error is something like, "File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)".
Harry
Try 'pacman -Sy gnome'.
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Silly me... I should have known
Harry
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