Re: Obsessed with a clean system
On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 22:04, Tong Sun wrote:
> try the 4th time.
>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:56:21 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Obsessed with a clean system
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> Hi,
>
> Anybody here is as obsessed as I am for a clean
> system?
>
> Looking at the packages I installed, I know there
> would be lots of them that I will never use. E.g.,
>
> kscreensaver ktux xscreensaver kdewallpapers atlantik
> atlantikdesigner gnome-games gnome-games-data katomic
> kbackgammon kbattleship kblackbox kdegames
> kdegames-card-data kenolaba kfouleggs kgoldrunner
> khangman kjumpingcube klickety kmahjongg kmessedwords
> kolf konquest kpat ksirtet ksmiletris ksokoban
> kspaceduel libgdkcardimage0 libkdegames1 libkpathsea3
> lskat
>
> I don't want them, but I have to keep them. This to me
> is a huge list.
>
> I used to remove all files in unwanted rpm packages in
> RH, leaving only empty shells in the system. Anybody
> has done similar things in Debian?
>
are you sure you *need* them?
if you want to get rid of the packages, you could use "dpkg
--force-dependency <package-name>" if there is some other packages that
want to keep those listed above around. dpkg has all sorts of different
options you can force, see man dpkg.
-matt
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