Re: Removing desktop environments
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:27:21PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:54:27PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
[..]
> > In any event, I never even _used_ the vast majority of these packages ..
> > let alone configure them .. My guess is that they got pulled in when I
> > installed gnome/kde.
>
> then you can probably safely purge them. Basically the only things
> you're worried about here are configs you heavily customised for
> packages you think you might want again in the future.
I do have backups of /home and /etc.
> > As far as I can remember, the only thing I need to worry about is to
> > make sure I do not remove any .gconf, .gtkrc or .kderc file -- and
> > possibly ".qtrc" if there is such a thing .. because I have some X
> > font-related stuff in here that I would rather hang on to ..
>
> by .<config-file> I assume you mean ~/.<config-file> in which case you
> should be fine. I believe that apt doesn't touch config files in your
> home dir.
Let's hope so.
Thanks,
cga.
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