Thread: What packages are safe to remove (purge)?
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reinob is offline reinob
2012-11-19 , 14:59
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#19
Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
I volunteer as a guinea pig I have removed osso-systemui-splashscreen and the only effect that I have noticed so far is that my N900 shuts down faster. If reinob's suspicion is right and it does something useful as a side effect then I guess I will find out sooner or later
Nah. I guess I was being too careful. When shutting down (when dbus is stopped in either USER or ACTDEAD mode), the splashscreen-util is run, which basically (as far as I can tell) makes that "dong" sound and waits to be killed.

The package also includes a module for MCE, which (I guess) makes it run when you poweroff from the MCE menu (the script in /etc/event.replace.d/ only runs the splashscreen-util if not already running, which makes me think that MCE runs it -- normally -- by itself when shutting down.)

I'll remove it from my "normal" N900 (the other two don't have it).
Last edited by reinob; 2012-11-19 at 20:47. Reason: s/thing/think
 

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