system-config-packages needs help

[agtilden]

I installed a minimal server installation today and decided to turn it into a full blown gnome desktop with all the trimmings later. Using system-config-packages selected all the right components but during the update i must have switched CDs 40 times. Most of the time I was oscillating between disc 1 and disc 2 getting one rpm per cd.

is there a way to tell system-config-packages to use a yum repo instead?

[GiLuX]

my guess is that if you say "yum install some_gnome_app" it will say that it needs to resolve a whole bunch of gnome dependencies...
so just say yes to it and yum will resolve all the dependencies for you...

have no clue if this will provide a working gnome desktop but you could try anyway...

let us know if that actually worked

good luck