Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:11:26PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:27:54AM EST, Chris Bannister wrote: > > I wouldn't remove any changelog files because I think that is how > > apt/dpkg (hence aptitude, syntaptic, etc) know the package version. > > Thanks for your recommendation

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-10 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:27:54AM EST, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:24:46AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > As far as /usr/share/doc if you are _really_ short on disk space, you > > could burn it to a CD, then remove the _contents_ of each directory (or at > > least t

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-10 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 05:28:35AM EST, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:14:40PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I tried locale + from a bash prompt on my sarge and found no > > localepurge. > > > > I tried: > > > > $ locate locale | g purge > > > > .. and no joy either. > > > > T

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-10 Thread cga2000
On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:09:31AM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > yeah, sorry, I 'r'ed instead of 'L'ed... No problem. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 06:18:06PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:47:42AM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:14:40PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > [...] > > > > you mention lots of locales you have no use for. localepurge will > > > > remove these locales

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:24:46AM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > As far as /usr/share/doc if you are _really_ short on disk space, you > could burn it to a CD, then remove the _contents_ of each directory (or at > least the large files that concern you). Then upgrades will still put > the s

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:09:19PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > In _my_ case it's really a question of "small is beautiful". Also, I'd > like my system to be < 1G so that a compressed full-backup fits on a > CD-R and runs under an hour on this ancient laptop of mine. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/l

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:14:40PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > I tried locale + from a bash prompt on my sarge and found no > localepurge. > > I tried: > > $ locate locale | g purge > > .. and no joy either. > > Then I did a "man locale" and looked for a purge option ("/purge") and > couldn't find

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-09 Thread cga2000
On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:47:42AM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:14:40PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > [...] > > > you mention lots of locales you have no use for. localepurge will > > > remove these locales for you. :) > > > > Sorry I missed your reply. > > > > I tried

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-09 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 06:14:40PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > [...] > > you mention lots of locales you have no use for. localepurge will > > remove these locales for you. :) > > Sorry I missed your reply. > > I tried locale + from a bash prompt on my sarge and found no > localepurge. > > I trie

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-08 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:20:07AM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:04:44PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:29:42PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > seems that all the locales

Re: [OT] Thank you ... (was: Re: Removing desktop environments)

2007-02-06 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 05:09:21PM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > [...] or am > > > I really *that* slow on typing? ;) > > > > gtypist? :-) > > > [...] > > Thanks a lot for the hint about gtypist. :-) It's pretty good actually .. I

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-06 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 08:24:46AM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > Is there any way I can have debian help me figure out if there is stuff > > that should be removed such as libraries that nothing uses -- naturally > > I did not rem

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
Greg Folkert wrote: ... The issue here is that you only need to backup your data. Backups of /usr and /var and so on mean nothing. I think you're giving bad advice. Think about /var a little more, for example: /var/spool/mail/ /var/spool/cron/crontabs/ /var/lib/dpkg/info/ /var/log/ A /us

[OT] Thank you ... (was: Re: Removing desktop environments)

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > [...] or am > > I really *that* slow on typing? ;) > > gtypist? :-) > [...] Thanks a lot for the hint about gtypist. :-) Up to now I used ktouch but hated, that it pulls in that many dependencies since I don't use KDE. So now I caould

Re: Removing desktop environments (Beware! stupid post)

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
FYI, the undesirable behaviour of debfoster2aptitude is caused by a bug I just filed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=409783 debfoster2aptitude calls debfoster but regardless of the exit decision of the user it syncs /var/lib/debfoster/keepers to /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. In m

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there any way I can have debian help me figure out if there is stuff > that should be removed such as libraries that nothing uses -- naturally > I did not remove a single library myself. > Wow. I've read all the gawking you've trie

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:23:19PM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:07:32PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > > > This way you would really save time and could even keep your actual > > > software selection without

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:14:37PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Mon February 5 2007 15:29, cga2000 wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:13:31PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: [...] > I suspect (but haven't tried it) apt would be ok with stuff from /etc/share > just going away. It would be put back on

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 12:09:46AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:04:44PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:29:42PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > seems that all the locales that I have no > > > use for > > > > localepurge > > Not on my system. yo

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:04:44PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:29:42PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > seems that all the locales that I have no > > use for > > localepurge Not on my system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 08:27:21PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:54:27PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: [..] > > In any event, I never even _used_ the vast majority of these packages .. > > let alone configure them .. My guess is that they got pulled in when I > > installe

Re: Removing desktop environments (Beware! stupid post)

2007-02-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:30:54AM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:54:43AM +0100, wrote: > > Also debfoster2aptitude (provided by debfoster) might be of interest > > for you. debfoster2aptitude because debfoster is deprecated by > > aptitude, but this way you have can mig

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 07:54:27PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:48:34PM EST, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Hello. > > > > cga2000, 06.02.2007 00:29: > > > What bothers me, though, is that a lot of the stuff in /usr/share/ -- > > > one Meg here .. 600K there .. etc. apparently be

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:48:34PM EST, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello. > > cga2000, 06.02.2007 00:29: > > What bothers me, though, is that a lot of the stuff in /usr/share/ -- > > one Meg here .. 600K there .. etc. apparently belongs to packages I have > > removed (apt-get remove package-name) ..

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 5 2007 15:29, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:13:31PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote: > > > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this > > > looks suspicious. > > > > That sounds about right. I have a base

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:29:42PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > seems that all the locales that I have no > use for localepurge A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello. cga2000, 06.02.2007 00:29: > What bothers me, though, is that a lot of the stuff in /usr/share/ -- > one Meg here .. 600K there .. etc. apparently belongs to packages I have > removed (apt-get remove package-name) .. Probably adds up to a hundred > Meg or thereabout .. Looks like I should h

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 02:13:31PM EST, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote: > > > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this > > looks suspicious. > > That sounds about right. I have a base install plus kde and my /usr/share/ is > 1.8G. :)

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 01:49:43PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:37:50PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this > > looks suspicious. > > my /usr/share/doc has 154M of stuff, maybe you could kill some -do

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 4 2007 14:37, cga2000 wrote: > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this > looks suspicious. That sounds about right. I have a base install plus kde and my /usr/share/ is 1.8G. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:37:50PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I did notice that /usr/share/ has over 700M of stuff in it and this > looks suspicious. my /usr/share/doc has 154M of stuff, maybe you could kill some -doc packages... just a thought. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Removing desktop environments (Beware! stupid post)

2007-02-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:54:43AM +0100, wrote: > Also debfoster2aptitude (provided by debfoster) might be of interest > for you. debfoster2aptitude because debfoster is deprecated by > aptitude, but this way you have can migrate your debfoster decision to > aptitude. It can be run in interactiv

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-05 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 11:04:45PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there any way I can have debian help me figure out if there is stuff > that should be removed such as libraries that nothing uses -- naturally > I did not remove a single library myself. > > I ran "deborphan -z" but at a glance it look

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 03:23:19PM EST, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:07:32PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > > This way you would really save time and could even keep your actual > > software selection without backing up /etc. > > Oops, of course it has to be "... without

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 07:15:20PM EST, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:10:46PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > I think that on Debian, anything under /usr and /var (not /usr/local or > > /var/local) should be considered to belong to apt. > > I got burned once not backing up

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 04:10:46PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I think that on Debian, anything under /usr and /var (not /usr/local or > /var/local) should be considered to belong to apt. I got burned once not backing up /var/spool and losing my user crontabs. You might get some grief loos

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:24:14PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:42:30PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:32:08PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Is there a quick way to rem

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:51:13PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:06:57PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:42 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > The issue here is that you only need to backup your data. Backups > > of /usr and /var and so on mean nothing. > > yo

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 09:07:32PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > This way you would really save time and could even keep your actual > software selection without backing up /etc. Oops, of course it has to be "... without backing up /usr." Anyway, mostly the other posters already wrote similar

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > that won't mess up apt..? > If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as > gpdf, gimp, and mozilla. You should be able to achieve that goal by

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:06:57PM EST, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:42 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Sorry I was unclear. > > > > I want to remove all the crud from my system in order to be able to run > > backups that are fast, small, and simple. > > > > I installed gnome and kd

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:40:01 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > that won't mess up apt..? > > If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as > gpdf, gimp, and mozilla. > > The main objective is

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 02:06:57PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:42 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I want to remove all the crud from my system in order to be able to run > > backups that are fast, small, and simple. > > > > I installed gnome and kde at one point but I never use

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:42:30PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:32:08PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > > > that won't mess up apt..? >

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:42 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Sorry I was unclear. > > I want to remove all the crud from my system in order to be able to run > backups that are fast, small, and simple. > > I installed gnome and kde at one point but I never use them. > > I have no intention of reinsta

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:59:13PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:44 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:33:58PM EST, Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On (04/02/07 12:40), cga2000 wrote: > > > > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > that won't mess up apt..? > > If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as > gpdf, gimp, and mozilla. > > The main objective is to be able to

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 13:44 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:33:58PM EST, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (04/02/07 12:40), cga2000 wrote: > > > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > > > that won't mess up apt..? > > > > > > If possible I would prefe

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:33:58PM EST, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (04/02/07 12:40), cga2000 wrote: > > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > > that won't mess up apt..? > > > > If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as > > gpdf, gimp, a

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 01:32:08PM EST, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > > that won't mess up apt..? > > If I understand what you're trying to do, then I don't think t

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 12:40:01PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > that won't mess up apt..? If I understand what you're trying to do, then I don't think this is a good solution. It introduces unecessary complication. That said, one w

Re: Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread Clive Menzies
On (04/02/07 12:40), cga2000 wrote: > Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments > that won't mess up apt..? > > If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as > gpdf, gimp, and mozilla. > > The main objective is to be able to run full system back

Removing desktop environments

2007-02-04 Thread cga2000
Is there a quick way to remove the gnome and KDE desktop environments that won't mess up apt..? If possible I would prefer not to remove a few gtk-based apps such as gpdf, gimp, and mozilla. The main objective is to be able to run full system backups that don't take forever and fit on a single CD