Re: purging X from debian installation
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:25:19PM -0500, w trillich wrote
> i'll wind up reformatting and reinstalling, i can tell.
>
> i'm trying to get xwindows stuff off the hard drive, and
> use only ncurses console/telnet/ssh interaction, and
> server software -- but when i try to zap the xlib6 packages
> (xlib6 and xlib6g) it wants to remove elvis, perlmagick/
> libmagick and a few other non-X-dependent items:
>
[snip]
X is a thing of many parts (one reason why it's
spread over so many packages), and while you
may want to be rid of it, you may have to learn
to live with parts of it if you want to keep
these other packages.
I wouldn't worry too much about xlib6g itself;
programs that are linked against it will require
it, but it only provides the ability to talk to
Xservers and so on; it doesn't represent any
particular weakness unless you're actually running
them under X (or they think you are).
If it's purely the space you're concerned about
you could consider using nvi in place of elvis,
but then you miss out on some of the fancy stuff
(like X support) that you probably like about
elvis. Of course, this won't help you much
with perlmagick.
John P.
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