No offense but that doesn't mean a thing to me as I wouldn't know GTK from QT. Oh, maybe 12 or so years ago when I first started using Slackware off and on I might have had an interest, but those days are gone. I'll only interested in whether or not the program does what I want it to do. Nothing more, nothing less.
As I don't have the first interest in programing, I would like to delete everything associated with it off my hard drive, other than whatever libraries that are absolutely necessary to run the occasion slackbuild script. I keep coming across programs I will never use that are taking up space. Not that space is at a premium, but I don't like to have anything I don't use on the hard drive.
Has anyone who **knows** what is, and is not necessary ever made up a list of what can be safely deleted?
Thanks.

K3b uses a tool called 'growisofs' (part of the dvd+rw-tools package) for burning DVDs.
That's from the man page for version 7.0 of growisofs which was released on 24th September 2006 - some 8 months before Nero announced that they were first to market with this "new" feature for Linux.
How long is a piece of string?

As long as you want it to be.

Stretch. Stretch. (Might as well make it long).

Er, uh, "in the context of" giants on the one hand and micro organisms on the other hand. (How about a giant micro organism?)

Reminds me of skiing with a friend on one absolutely horriffic, extremely windy, terrible, weather (bad weather) day. I found myself wondering if or how I might appreciate such day as that one. I soon realized that if I'd never experienced or known what a good day consists of then I correspondingly could not know that a bad weather day is a bad day (nothing to compare it to, no context). In the end, I had fun and that day became a rather memorable day.

I had decided that the good news was that the horriffic weather day provides the needed context for me to know what a good weather day is. (and at times I pretended that I had no context, thus I had no method with which to define this day's weather as "bad" -- amazing what that can do for the psyche).

Well dressed, I proceeded to find ways to have fun most of the day. (tuck down in certain areas so the tiny flying ice particles don't hit me directly in the face and sting) -- oh, that was cool, a short, little, brief, whiteout. Oop, big whiteout coming, slow to a crawl or stop and wait it out (safety, need to see forward in order to safely travel forward).

:-) :-) <Grin> How long to have the string?. You have/use a sixty megabyte hard drive from circa 1991, right? (In actuality, this sounds like something that I might do or try).

Well then, these here next two Linux distro's are huge

http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

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Alan.

Exactly the point. What can "safely" be deleted on one box may not be on another.

For example, I can't delete QT because I happen to use KDE. OTOH, QT hasn't been on jong357's computer for so long that he doesn't even know what it currently looks like. Oh well. To each his own.

Actually, it was a 40 meg Seagate from the '80s, but that puppy died a LONG time ago.