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On 12/05/11 12:49, Martin Gautier wrote: > > I'd say try it, and if the package manager warns you, then cancel the > procedure. Sounds reasonable. It is likely also that if you remove applications the underlying libraries will become spare. The folks who make the packaging system have tried to identify these dependencies and remove them automatically. Occasionally it goes wrong, especially after things like upgrading a whole distro, when there can be a lot of spurious packages around. deborphan tried to detect these.... http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/134 Be warned "purging" can remove user configuration data. If you remove the packages and nothing breaks, you can purge them later. If you purge them and something breaks, you can't rely on fixing it by reinstalling the missing package. Where as normally even if you removed KDE or GNOME with an "apt-get remove someimportpackage" you can simply "apt-get install [list of removed packages from dpkg.log]" and you'll be back where you were. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq