2019-06-05 19:16 GMT+02:00, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 17:11 +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:06:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >> > On 05/06/2019 00:52, Beartooth wrote: >> > > I run Mate under F30. I assume Mate calls a lot of Gnome code >> > > (most or all of what Gnome3 didn't change). So I never worry about >> > > any >> > > new app bringing Gnome stuff with it. >> [....] >> > What are you looking to gain from this exercise? >> >> Space (which I probably don't really need); celerity maybe; >> slightly better security maybe (with fewer idle apps for some nogoodnik >> to attack through); a little more play with my nice toys, which might >> teach me something. You see why I wonder if it's worth it. > > None of KDE is going to be running unless you actually run it, either > via one of its apps, or by using the Plasma desktop. The only thing > you're going to save is space. I think that Beartooth has a point. 1. What you don't have, doesn't cause problems later on (a package can, even if it's never used, for example, by causing various dependency problems). And can you guarantee that there isn't some daemon/service running because of an unused but installed package? 2. HDDs may be cheap, but SSDs are not. Bandwidth isn't either, especially when one's on the road. And on an SSD, every upgrade of a package means extra wear on the SSD. It may not be significant for one extra package, but for the hundreds of packages that KDE has, it may just be (although I hope it's not). 3. Even though HDDs are cheap, adjusting the size of the root partition is not if you have bare ext4 partitions. (I've just been bitten by this during an upgrade to f30. Thank God, no, the developers, for the --downloaddir option to dnf.) Each of these problems may have a separate solution. But isn't it much easier not to have them in the first place? Just my 2 cents. Andras _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
