Safe to uninstall Gnome?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Andrew Conkling wrote:

>I was wondering if it'd be safe to uninstall Gnome with XFCE.  For some
>reason, I get the impression that XFCE uses Gnome stuff, but that could
>just as easily be my crazy idea as it could some documented thing.
>  
>
gnome uses gtk2 (and its dependencies).  nothing beyond gtk2 is 
required, so you don't need any of the gnome/orbit/bonobo libs, or any 
of the gnome-* packages. however, in addition, you might want to install 
libstartup-notification and librsvg.  also, xfce doesn't include apps 
like a calculator, text editor, etc., so you might want to install the 
appropriate gnome packages that contain them (or use whatever non-gnome 
stuff you want).

    -brian