The Fedora 12 Constantine GNOME Live CD is Mono free, but installing GNOME from the DVD pulls in not only Mono itself, but also support for Windows.Forms (mono-winforms), which is outside the ECMA standard (and not covered under Microsoft’s horribly inadequate Community Promise).
While Constantine no longer includes Tomboy, it does still include F-Spot which is a .NET application.
Mono can be removed and blocked by running the following commands as root:
yum erase -y mono-\*
sed -i '/^\[main\]$/a exclude=mono-\*' /etc/yum.conf
I take back what I said earlier about Fedora protecting our freedom..
Update: Users can, of course, select the “Customize Now” button during installation and remove Mono/F-Spot, etc to ensure it’s not installed in the first place.
Chris,
Unchecking Fspot from DVD installation via “Customize now” will not include mono packages. It sounds like you blog implies Fedora does no longer allow custom installation which is not true. You should at least mentioned it.
Hi Luya,
Thanks, it wasn’t my intention to imply that, but I did include the words “by default” as it is the default. Naturally you can customise whatever you like
-c
Chris,
F-Spot might be getting replaced by Shotwell by default in Fedora 13.
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-desktop-list/2009-November/msg00059.html
Hey Rahul,
Thanks for the link. It doesn’t mention anything about replacing F-Spot, but rather gThumb. Still, if Shotwell is good enough, there’d be no reason to keep F-Spot I guess.
-c