> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:38 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> I was browsing the 'Installed Applications' list. There are numerous >> packages which I would like to remove, starting with the language packs >> for ezitext. >> >> These along with many other packages (chinese-font, clink-av0, gnuchess >> for example) are listed as dependencies/requirements of 'OS2008 feature >> upgrade 1:4.2008.23-14'. >> >> Is there any way to remove this sort of restriction? (Unpack, revise and >> repack the .deb for example.?) >> >> There are megabytes of programs which I do not need nor want, and would >> like to remove. >> >> Geoff Denis Dimick wrote: > The best way would be by deleting them by hand. Using apt-get remove > could/will cause packages to be deleted that you do not want deleted. > > Denis Except that most of the packages actually have file names which do not match the AppManager name. And large numbers of them are library files, I suspect (language packages for example). So manual removal is possible but limited. Geoff _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
