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Ah yes, hard dependencies that are not actually hard dependencies.
That package may just be protected.
@OP to actually help you it would be really smart to record the issue you had when installing. Maybe SDDM setting up alongside GNOME or something?
KDE on Fedora works really well, but mixing the apps was a pain in the past, may not be anymore as the KDE Devs deal with GNOME being GNOME by just packing the needed icons into every app.
I had heard that having two DE installed could cause problems, but when I checked https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/switching-desktop-environments/ I didn't see any warning so I tried.
I guess, if I really wanna try KDE outside of a virtual machine, I'm gonna do a Clonezilla backup of my Gnome Fedora installation and wipe everything before starting on a fresh KDE installation.
You might try to just swap the groups
Or something, I dont use traditional Fedora anymore and only used it for a a few weeks.
I ain’t gonna try anything anymore, as I feel like I dodged a bullet and could have broken my precious installation.
That is unless I grow tired of Gnome one day.
Swapping some packages really shouldnt be a problem.
But learn how to do BTRFS system snapshota before.
Also, discussion.fedoraproject.org
Technically, if you would have been on Fedora Atomic, you could have just rebased to the Kinoite branch. Perhaps even created a new user so your home folder doesn't get populated by unwanted stuff. And, afterwards, you could rebase back to whatever your original branch was.
Furthermore, downloading any distro that defaults to KDE and offers a live environment should be able to offer you a KDE experience within the live environment as well.