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newbury at mandamus

Jul 18, 2008, 10:38 AM

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Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade

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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dgdimick at gmail

Jul 18, 2008, 9:28 PM

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Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade [In reply to]

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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newbury at mandamus

Jul 21, 2008, 9:54 AM

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Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade [In reply to]

> 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

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
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marius.vollmer at nokia

Aug 20, 2008, 4:17 AM

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Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade [In reply to]

"ext R. G. Newbury" <newbury[at]mandamus.org> writes:

> 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.?)

Yes, that would work. You can also remove the files of the packages and
leave the package itself installed (after verifying that nothing else
than the osso-software-version-rx34 package depends on it.)

A better option might be to just remove the osso-software-version-rx34
(or -rx44) package and update 'manually' with "apt-get upgrade" etc from
then on.

It is also possible to put alternative meta packages into the maemo.org
Extras repository, if there is enough interest in the community to
maintain their own variants.
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rabelg5 at gmail

Aug 20, 2008, 10:25 AM

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Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade [In reply to]

----- Original message -----
> "ext R. G. Newbury" <newbury[at]mandamus.org> writes:
>
> > 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.?)
>
> Yes, that would work. You can also remove the files of the packages and
> leave the package itself installed (after verifying that nothing else
> than the osso-software-version-rx34 package depends on it.)
>
> A better option might be to just remove the osso-software-version-rx34
> (or -rx44) package and update 'manually' with "apt-get upgrade" etc from
> then on.
>

Bad p.an, apt-get upgrade resulted in reboot lo and general brokennessops for quite a few people who tried it with osso-software-version installed for this last round of updates.out
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marius.vollmer at nokia

Aug 21, 2008, 2:59 AM

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Re: Removing excess packages after Diablo upgrade [In reply to]

"ext Ryan Abel" <rabelg5[at]gmail.com> writes:
>> A better option might be to just remove the osso-software-version-rx34
>> (or -rx44) package and update 'manually' with "apt-get upgrade" etc from
>> then on.
>
> Bad plan, apt-get upgrade resulted in reboot lo and general
> brokennessops for quite a few people who tried it with
> osso-software-version installed for this last round of updates.out

I think the plan is good, it's just that we have to fix things to make
it work.

I will try to investigate a bit to see how broken things actually are.
(I mainly suspect broken 'essentials' declarations to cause dist-upgrade
to remove important packages by accident, etc.)
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