[Cialug] Install Gnome 3 w/o network-manager and pulseaudio

[Dave Hala Jr]

While I can't help you with Debian, I will chime in and say that the new
"networkmanager" in Centos 6/RHEL is a pita too.  In fact, I also
removed it.




On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 09:11 -0600, Daniel A. Ramaley wrote:
> I've been holding off updates on my Debian Testing box for a couple 
> weeks because it wanted to update Gnome from version 2 to 3 and i 
> expected that would break a few things.
> 
> This morning i bit the bullet and did the update. Networking and audio 
> were completely borked on the system due to Gnome 3 pulling in network-
> manager and pulseaudio. I got things working again by purging those 2 
> pieces of trash; disabling them in /etc/init.d wasn't sufficient for 
> reasons i didn't dig deep enough to discover. Unfortunately, removing 
> those required me to remove the gnome package due to the dependencies.
> 
> Does anyone happen to know how to install Gnome 3 without including 
> network-manager and pulseaudio? Would i have to compile it myself after 
> tweaking the package a bit?
> 
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> Daniel A. Ramaley
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> 
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