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 > > installed gnome/kde. > > then you can probably safely purge them. Basically the only things > you're worried about here are configs you heavily customised for > packages you think you might want again in the future. I do have backups of /home and /etc. > > As far as I can remember, the only thing I need to worry about is to > > make sure I do not remove any .gconf, .gtkrc or .kderc file -- and > > possibly ".qtrc" if there is such a thing .. because I have some X > > font-related stuff in here that I would rather hang on to .. > > by .<config-file> I assume you mean ~/.<config-file> in which case you > should be fine. I believe that apt doesn't touch config files in your > home dir. Let's hope so. Thanks, cga. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
