Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?
I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm.
I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages.
I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some
things remain.
I note that gconfd-2 is running when I run top. Is this just a leftover
from before I did my purge of gnome packages, or is it something that I
actually need?
If I run 'apt-get --purge remove gconf gconf2' I get the following list
of packages to be removed:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
gconf* gconf2* libbonoboui2-0* libgconf11* libgconf2-4*
libgnome-vfs-common*
libgnome2-0* libgnome2-common* libgnome2-perl* libgnome2-vfs-perl*
libgnomeui-0* libgnomevfs2-0* libgnomevfs2-common*
openoffice.org-gnome-integration*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 14 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 19.7MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
There had been three other apps (eog, gizmo-project and glame) but, as I
am not using them, I have already uninstalled them. Is there any reason
that I should not be able to safely remove these packages? It would
seem that gconf and gconf2 are the only things keeping all of these libs
around. Can I let apt remove all of this?
--
Marc Shapiro
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