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by gavazzy 3881 days ago
This would be useful for AWS instances where you don't want to install a desktop environment on the server.
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Why would you wanna do that (install a desktop env)?!
To support graphical installers and specific service administrators that are used to using a GUI on a server? I knew an Oracle DBA once that always wanted X and and Gnome installed on the the RHEL DB servers, it was what he knew and was comfortable with when installing Oracle.