[maemo-users] Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade

[From: Denis Dimick]

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.

HtH,

Denis


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:38 AM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org>
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
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