Re: Stripping KDE
Hello.
Katipo:
> I am in the process of stripping my system down.....again.
> I want at this stage, to get rid of KDE completely.
[...]
> Does anybody have any good advice as to a successful technique for
> this, e.g., is there a recommended remove sequence? Or can anyone
> point me to a reference?
I'm not sure I answer the question you're asking, but I always
`debfoster $package-` to remove $package I no longer want to use.
Debfoster works inversly to apt-get; `apt-get install $package` installs
all of the $package's dependencies, `debfoster $package-` asks for
removal of any packages that exist *solely* to provide dependencies
needed by $package.
In other words: `apt-get install kde` would install all of the KDE, but
`apt-get --purge remove kde` would only remove the kde meta-package, not
the KDE as a whole; OTOH, `debfoster kde-` would remove the meta-package
and ask, one by one, whether you want to keep all of the packages the
meta-package depended on.
Of course, after apt-get-installing debfoster and before using it to
remove packages, you have to run it once and tell it what packages you
want to keep (and you'll probably find you have a lot of orphaned
libraries already).
Cheers,
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