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Subject: Re: Gnome without the stuff?
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Mark Rowlands wrote:

>/usr/ports/www/firefox
>/usr/ports/www/epiphany
>/usr/ports/mail/evolution
>/usr/ports/games/gnome-music-quiz
>/usr/ports/games/gnomeattacks
>/usr/ports/games/gnomebreakout
>/usr/ports/games/gnomechess
>/usr/ports/games/gnomegames2
>/usr/ports/games/gnomegames2-extra-data
>/usr/ports/games/gnomekiss
>/usr/ports/games/gnomememoryblocks
>/usr/ports/games/gnomermin
>
>Sure they have dependencies, you might need X........
>  
>
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something fundamental.  Is "Gnome" nothing 
more than the collection of applications like Evolution and Epiphany and 
the little game with the colored marbles? I thought it was a GUI 
environment, not an application suite.

Now, I understand that epiphany and so forth can be installed via their 
own ports.  But the "gnome2" package installs epiphany and evolution and 
gnomegames and assorted other gnomecrappitycrap (I'm sure it's wonderful 
stuff, no offense intended by this choice of words).  Gnome2 "depends" 
upon the little game with the colored marbles.  But I just want the 
Gnome desktop without that game, and so forth.

But if I'm right that Gnome is nothing more than gnomecrappitycrap et 
al, then maybe what I'm really looking for would be the Windows Manager 
that Gnome uses by default? That is, Metacity? Maybe?

I'm sorry if these are stupid questions - I'm mostly new to this, and am 
confused as to the roles of (Gnome/KDE/Whatever) versus 
(Metacity/WindowMaker/Whatever).

>Personally I want the moon on a stick.
>  
>
I'm sorry, I can't help you with that.

Thanks,

Bob Vesterman.