[maemo-users] Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade

[From: R. G. Newbury]

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