[Sugar-devel] OLPC OS with gnome only.

[James Cameron]

Remove the sugar packages using RPM and see what depends on them?

You cannot switch desktop with GUI once you remove package
olpc-switch-desktop, but you can edit .olpc-active-desktop file by hand.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:58:19AM +0545, Buddhi Tuladhar wrote:
> I removed olpc-switch-desktop from module but sugar still starts at first boot.
> what actually happens is, now i cannot switch to gnome form sugar. I can see
> these below sugar packages are still installed from my package list of build. I
> think there is still some dependencies left to remove.
> sugar-0.112.olpc.0-0.noarch
> sugar-artwork-0.112.olpc.0-0.armv7hl
> sugar-datastore-0.112.olpc.0-0.armv7hl
> sugar-toolkit-gtk3-0.112.olpc.0-0.armv7hl
> 
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 3:37 PM, James Cameron <[1]quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> 
>     Thanks for testing.
> 
>     olpc-switch-desktop is why Sugar is still included; the Sugar packages
>     are usually selected by modules/sugar/kspkglist.50.sugar.inc, and
>     without the [sugar] module present in your .ini file the packages
>     should not be selected, but olpc-switch-desktop has a dependency on
>     Sugar, and the package is added by
>     modules/gnome/kspkglist.50.gnome.inc.  So you might remove it from
>     there.
> 
>     To start GNOME by default instead of Sugar, you must arrange for your
>     build to write "gnome" to the file /home/olpc/.olpc-active-desktop and
>     as a result /usr/bin/olpc-session will start the gnome-session.
>    
>     On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 03:21:03PM +0545, Buddhi Tuladhar wrote:
>     > Tried removing [sugar], [sugar_activity_group], and
>     [sugar_activities_extra]
>     > but only activities was not installed. sugar remains same. At first boot
>     it
>     > starts sugar. Can we do something to start gnome only then ?
>     >
>     > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 2:55 PM, James Cameron <[1][2]quozl at laptop.org>
>     wrote:
>     >
>     >     Last time I tried this was in February 2015, with the goal of
>     reducing
>     >     time between test builds.  The method was to edit the .ini file and
>     >     remove sections [usb_update], [sugar], [sugar_activity_group], and
>     >     [sugar_activities_extra]
>     >
>     >     I don't know if it will work.
>     >
>     >     On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 01:43:38PM +0545, Buddhi Tuladhar wrote:
>     >     > Dear all,
>     >     >
>     >     > I have a query about OLPC OS builder.
>     >     > Is it possible to build OLPC OS  just with Gnome Desktop
>     Environment ? if
>     >     yes
>     >     > then how can i do this?
>     >     >
>     >     > Best,
>     >     > Buddhi.
>     >
>     >     --
>     >     James Cameron
>     >     [2][3]http://quozl.netrek.org/
>     >
>     > References:
>     >
>     > [1] mailto:[4]quozl at laptop.org
>     > [2] [5]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> 
>     --
>     James Cameron
>     [6]http://quozl.netrek.org/
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [2] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
> [3] http://quozl.netrek.org/
> [4] mailto:quozl at laptop.org
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James Cameron
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