Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142940
Removal of KDE removes GNOME, too
Last modified: 2014-01-21 17:50:47 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: I wanted to remove KDE; I don't use it or even like it anymore. So I did a "yum remove qt" and waited for it to percolate. Gnome was replaced by TWM. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-2.1.11-3 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum remove qt 2. Ensure that no Gnome packages are mentioned, and confirm. 3. Watch how TWM is now the system default. Actual Results: Removing these QT libs should have removed everything KDE related, and anything using the QT libraries, and it did. It also mangled gnome-session and gnome-media in such a way as to need to be installed a second time....it was never removed. Once installed a second time, it worked again. Expected Results: Removing KDE (or conversely Gnome) should be just that- removing one or the other. Are there components still confused after all these years? Additional info:
arts requires libqt-mt.so which is provided by qt gstreamer-plugins requires arts much of gnome needs the gstreamer plugins - ex: libgstinterfaces-0.8.so.0 That's what removes gnome when you remove qt. try yum remove kde\* and see if that's better.