Re: DNF is a time waster

2016-04-01 Thread Bear Tooth
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 10:36:37 -0700, CLOSE Dave wrote: > That is, it works but it takes an unreasonably long time to do so. How > can it be that, DNF knows the package is already installed and /still/ > takes such a long time to decide that dependencies are ok? There aren't > any dependencies to re

Re: VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-25 Thread Bear Tooth
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016 10:23:17 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > All this sort of depends on what you all mean by "gnome packages" > because the gnome folks maintain a lot of base packages that many other > things depend on. ie, Xfce wouldn't exist without gtk2, > xfce4-power-manager requires upower, etc.

VDQ : Aaarrrghghghhh : Gnome 3

2016-03-23 Thread Bear Tooth
Very Dumb Question : I've just installed F 23, and failed to tell it to use xfce; how do I fix that?? (I seem doomed never to find anything in Gnome 3.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up i

Live Media Only??

2016-03-07 Thread Bear Tooth
I went to download F3 from https://spins.fedoraproject.org/en/ (using Opera 35.0 under F23) and everything I got turned out to be Live CDs (except for being larger than any CD I have). I don't mean to hesitate. I want a real full install. What am I doing wrong?? -- Beartooth Staffwr