Hi!
I found the actual KDE version stable enough to remove my GNOME-fallback installation! Yey!
I wanted to ask, is there any civilized way to remove the entire GNOME DE, or i need to remove everything from package to package and play with the dependencies?
Thank you!
I’ve never had gnome to try but can’t you use yast and search by pattern and remove it there?
Thank you for the fast reply!
Okay lets do that. I’m in YaST. As filter select the Patterns option.
Under the Graphical Environments right click to the GNOME Desktop Environment and select Do not install. Nothing happens. I repeated this process in the GNOME Base System too - same result.
Ok only got 11.2 at the mo but theory should be the same due to few deps that kde has on gnome you’re going to get some resolving to do.
On a clean install I have about 30 in base, so click in the package window all in this list delete. Then you’ll get the resolving window here I would have a quick scan choose the obvious ones. Like kde, mozilla, libzypp, yast2 probably gtk2 ones, then tell it to try again keep doing that. Just remember to try again occasionally it helps parse out some of the ones from the list.
Edit:
Those meta packages seem a little crooked to me, I’m sure they could remove some from the gnome pattern but depend on them else where.
Okay, it was my first idea. 
Anyway I still need to play around the dependencies…
Thank you!
FeatherMonkey wrote:
> I’ve never had gnome to try but can’t you use yast and search by pattern
> and remove it there?
Very carefull with this as it can also ask to remove some “core” (zypper)
packages.
Always check for dependencies and/or conflicts and fully review the summary
of the proposed changes before proceed.
Greetings,
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Camaleón