Man, there's a lot to prune

Post #95,823 by drewk 4/10/03 3:05:58 PM Reply	Man, there's a lot to prune Knoppix dumps an absolute boatload of apps on the hard drive. I guess that's what it needs for the demo, but now I have to go through and clean it up. Posting this from lynx while I'm busy purging KDE in another tty. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #95,852 by pwhysall 4/10/03 4:21:45 PM Reply	Re: Man, there's a lot to prune Coupla things. Firstly, you can kill KDE dead with "apt-get remove libqt4". Nobbling GNOME is likewise a matter of zapping GTK. Secondly, get debfoster and orphaner going NOW. debfoster presents you with a list of packages that nothing depends on, and asks you if you want to keep them - if you Prune them, all the deps go, too. orphaner shows you packages that are not depended on by anything - by default, it only shows you libs, but will show you ALL packages that are non-depended-upon if you supply the "-a" switch. orphaner is provided by the "deborphan" package. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #95,863 by drewk 4/10/03 4:51:35 PM Reply	What exactly is the difference? They both seem to provide lists of things that nothing depends on. How are they different? === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #95,866 by pwhysall 4/10/03 4:55:22 PM Reply	Re: What exactly is the difference? orphaner makes you pick individual packages to uninstall. debfoster is the tactical nuke of package removal - with a couple of keystrokes, you can blat enormous amounts of software from your system. Peter [link\|http://www.debian.org\|Shill For Hire] [link\|http://www.kuro5hin.org\|There is no K5 Cabal] [link\|http://guildenstern.dyndns.org\|Blog]
Post #95,867 by drewk 4/10/03 4:56:38 PM Reply	OK So orphaner finds things that are already unused, foster allows you to remove a package and everything that is only used by it. Got it. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #95,870 by drewk 4/10/03 4:59:41 PM Reply	Why does it keep generating locales? This is the step that keeps taking so long, and it does it after every action I take with apt. === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.
Post #95,871 by drewk 4/10/03 5:00:01 PM 4/10/03 5:00:42 PM Reply	Oops, dupe === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001. Edited by drewk April 10, 2003, 05:00:42 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #96,518 by drewk 4/14/03 1:06:49 PM Reply	Another method Do a fresh Knoppix hd install. Do apt-get upgrade, anser no, and view the list of how many things are going to be updated. Then apt-get remove foo fo2 foo3 foo4 ... fooN of everything you don't want. At least I'm avoiding downloading 280M of updates to (mostly) things I don't want anyway. Then use debfoster and orphaner (which BTW come with Knoppix by default). === Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.

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