Safe to uninstall Gnome?

[Matt Thompson]

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 19:11, 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.

As said before, you don't need GNOME.  But, you use one GNOME-ish
package, and you'll need parts.  An example is Galeon and Evolution.  To
get them to work you need control-center so mailto: and http: links are
handled correctly.  That is usually the vital bit (above and beyond
gtk2).

In the end, I usually just install GNOME.  It's good to have in those
rare cases when a GNOME app goes nuts and you just have to be in GNOME
to get it to work.  And since I use Galeon, Evolution, and other
GNOME-based apps, it's worth the lost disk space.

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