Re: Removing desktop environments
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:23:19PM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:07:32PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
> > > This way you would really save time and could even keep your actual
> > > software selection without backing up /etc.
> >
> > Oops, of course it has to be "... without backing up /usr."
> >
> > Anyway, mostly the other posters already wrote similar suggestions and
> > I can only agree with them. Should have read the thread 1st, or am
> > I really *that* slow on typing? ;)
>
> gtypist? :-)
>
> Thanks to all.
>
> I have removed a large number of packages -- the best tip was from
> someone who suggested removing a kde, I think, library .. that pulled
> out a huge number of dependent package .. none of which I need .. and
> many of which I didn't even know I had them installed.
>
> Now I have gotten rid of about 1G of stuff .. but I still think there's
> more.
>
> Is there any way I can have debian help me figure out if there is stuff
> that should be removed such as libraries that nothing uses -- naturally
> I did not remove a single library myself.
apt-cache show cruft
> I ran "deborphan -z" but at a glance it looks like it does not add up to
> more than 20-30Meg .. so I might as well leave well alone.
There maybe others once you delete something,
i.e nothing depends on x; so x is listed in deborphan
x depends on y; so if you delete x and nothing else depends on y, then
y will now be listed in deborphan.
--
Chris.
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Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to
etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once
etch goes stable.
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