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I am fine tuning my netbook install by removing/replacing some packages. Example, remove Thunderbird, install Sylpheed, remove rxvt, xterm, install terminator, etc... Now when I install Sylpheed, if I am missing a dependency, I will know soon enough and I can keep track of that. Perfectly fair. But when I remove Thunderbird, well, is there a way to find out if there were any other packages that Thunderbird depended upon that could be removed? Like an orphan package.
i did a search in metacrawler for the dependencies, the dependency hell entry on wikipedia mentions it specifically. looks like it's static compiled gre in most cases, or compiled to use a common xulrunner interface, presume it's static, run it from an xterm for a while to catch error messages.
Let's keep in mind that having a full install of Slackware lessen the burden of managing dependencies.
In particular, slackbuilds.org only mention dependencies which are not included in Slackware.
So my advise would be:
- if your netbook is really short on disk space, only remove really heavy packages;
- else do not remove anything.
Despite the old saying « Il ne faut pas mettre deux crocodiles mâles dans le même marigot », xterm and terminator should be able to peacefully coexist in your Slackware
Thanks Didier. Familiarizing myself with Slackware. I am going to study your answer further. Yeah I will not remove glibc. I am an Arch user too, I know about glibc hell... .
@sKaar. Yep starting an app from the command line can help diagnose/troubleshoot things and minimize trouble.
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