Þann 2006-05-24, 14:18:10 (-0700) skrifaði Marc Shapiro: > 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?
Well, if you are not using any apps that need the gconf database then you can remove these packages. I would just try it out and see if anything misbehaves afterwards and then reinstall these packages to see if the system comes back to normal :-) HTH Oli -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
