Mike Leone on 2 Dec 2003 14:17:02 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Completelty removing KDE from Debian testing? - SOLVED?


LeRoy Cressy (ldc@lrcressy.com) had this to say on 12/02/03 at 14:04: 
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> Mike Leone wrote:
> >Mike Leone (turgon@mike-leone.com) had this to say on 12/02/03 at 10:54: 
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> >>I've got a Debian testing box that I'm going to be moving onto a DMZ. At 
> >>the
> >>moment, it has a binch of unncessary WM and environments on it. Anybody 
> >>know
> >>of a (hopefullly simple!) set of apt commands to completely remove and 
> >>purge
> >>KDE? Is there some kind of meta-task package that I can just purge, and it
> >>will rip all of KDE out?
> >
> >
> >Well, apparently, if you do a 
> >
> >apt-get purge poxml
> >
> >Debian wants to remove all of KDE while it's at it.
> >
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> If you are setting up a dmz box why not get rid of all of the X stuff 
> which will remove all of the gnome, window managers, and X applications.

Because I may want the X stuff at some point; and if so, I prefer a
lighterweight WM. And if we decide in future we don't need any of the X
stuff, we can remove that part then. (I doubt I'll need it, but you never
know)

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