Re: Removing desktop environments
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:13:31PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote:
>
> > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this
> > looks suspicious.
>
> That sounds about right. I have a base install plus kde and my /usr/share/ is
> 1.8G. :)
Since we're both debian "/usr"s .. maybe you could "/share" it with me
so I could get rid of mine..?
:-)
apart from the doc/ tree -- I could probably view those docs online if I
ever .. ever .. need to .. seems that all the locales that I have no
use for .. fonts .. (from various packages) .. and games (tuxracer in
particular) .. account for most of the 700M.
I don't really want to just start deleting stuff in /usr/share/ one
directory at a time because most of it is part of packages that I don't
want to remove and I'd rather stay on good terms with apt. I don't think
there's a way to tell apt -- OK .. So, I've read the README and the
debian-README and the changelog .. and the release notes .. I very mych
doubt I will read them again .. please remove them.
What bothers me, though, is that a lot of the stuff in /usr/share/ --
one Meg here .. 600K there .. etc. apparently belongs to packages I have
removed (apt-get remove package-name) .. Probably adds up to a hundred
Meg or thereabout .. Looks like I should have specified a purge flag or
whatever and I would probably have freed up a couple more hundred
Megs.. probably too late now.
Thanks,
cga
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