On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 15:11 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="jam"> > > > I DO want the ubuntu-desktop, but I won't use and don't want most of the > > apps including the ones desktop depends on. > > The ubuntu-desktop package is a meta-package. There's nothing in it. The > only reason it exists is to provide Depends and Recommends metadata. You can > remove the ubuntu-desktop package without breaking anything. > > > At this point even openoffice is depended on by the desktop so I can't > > even ditch that > > You absolutely can. In fact, the OpenOffice.org packages are all Recommends > rather than Depends, so you can actually remove it without removing the meta > package (ubuntu-desktop). > > Here's how to start: > > apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop > > Start removing crap you don't want that is listed on the Recommends line. If > you want to remove some of the stuff on the Depends line, that's fine, but > that will result in the ubuntu-desktop meta package being removed, which is > okay until you want to upgrade and get all the cool new things it helpfully > depends on.
Mmmm after some judicious apt-get remove --purge package name on the recommends mksquashfs /casper/chroot /casper/filesystem.squashfs -noappend -always-use-fragments core dumps after finding empty sym-links and bad files So I'll walk, not run. Thanks to all for the help and instruction James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
