From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 17 17:00:32 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F93316A41F for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:00:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kutulu@kutulu.org) Received: from basement.kutulu.org (2.196.27.24.cfl.res.rr.com [24.27.196.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 210AE43D45 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:00:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kutulu@kutulu.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by basement.kutulu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 804B761 for ; Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:00:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43CD22A8.7020301@kutulu.org> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 12:00:24 -0500 From: Mike Edenfield User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: GNOME without media? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 17:00:32 -0000 I notice that when I install GNOME, it pulls in all kinds of multimedia-related things, like gstreamer and esound. I don't even have a sound card in this system, so clearly these don't help me at all. However, for some reason a lot of other, seemingly unrelated packages depend on these media component. For example, trying to remove esound fails because esound is a dependancy of libgnome and libbobonoui and gdm. Do these REALLY need esound to function? Similarly, gstreamer is a dependancy for evolution and gnomecontrolcenter. Is there any easy way to get GNOME installed without these useless components? --Mike