Around 03:59pm on Wednesday, May 27, 2009 (UK time), Rahul Sundaram
scrawled:
> On 05/27/2009 08:21 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>
>> I've tried the big hammer more than once -- told yum to remove
>> gnome-screensaver; but it always threatens to take xscreensaver with it.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do about this usurpation? Or if not,
>> might some developer in an idle moment take a hard look at the
>> dependencies?
> I don't know what the trouble is. Here I go, on a system with GNOME
> install, I install xscreensaver
>
>
http://fpaste.org/paste/13109
>
> Then I remove gnome-screensaver
>
>
http://fpaste.org/paste/13110
>
> No problems. Show us your output
Note, I am not the OP, but for me:
# yum remove gnome-screensaver
...
Dependencies Resolved
================================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
================================================================================
Removing:
gnome-screensaver i386 2.24.1-2.fc10 installed 3.4 M
Removing for dependencies:
fedora-screensaver-theme noarch 1.0.0-3.fc10 installed 18 k
fedorainfinity-screensaver-theme noarch 1.0.0-1.fc8 installed 102 k
xscreensaver-extras-gss i386 1:5.08-5.fc10 installed 43 k
xscreensaver-gl-extras-gss i386 1:5.08-5.fc10 installed 28 k
I don't want to lose these dependencies.
Steve
xscreensaver{,-gl}-extras-gss is not needed when you want to use xscreensaver.
They are needed when you want to use xscreensaver hacks with
gnome-screensaver.
Regards,
Mamoru