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Re: Email programs that work.



On (30/08/06 08:27), Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Ah!  Another straight fvwm user.  I have been devising plans to 
> completely rid myself of the last vestiges of gnome and KDE (neither of 
> which I ever used) that remain on my system.  I finally decided that the 
> best way was to do a clean install of Etch, instead of doing an 'apt-get 
> dist-upgrade' as I would otherwise have done.  That way I KNOW that 
> there is nothing left.  And, since I am switch to aptitude with Etch, if 
> I do install something that requires such libs, if I decide to remove 
> it, I know that the libs will go away with the package.

It is probably too late but if you use aptitude interactively and press
'M' it strips the system back to bare essentials; you can then update
and upgrade just the base system.

Regards

Clive

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