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

[Daniel A. Ramaley]

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
Network Engineer 2

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