Thread: What packages are safe to remove (purge)?
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2012-11-22 , 09:55
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#29
Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast View Post
Well, without recompiling them obviously.
As mentioned in a another thread there are lots of silly dependences that are not really proper (Nokia MetaPackage).
Will take some time to work out what can be removed and what is required.
Repackaging to remove wrong dependencies != recompiling. Repackaging can be done by anyone with access to vi and tar on own system (assuming that autobuilder is working), or if we want to avoid autobuilder, deb* tools too.

None of this require any recompiling, so it can be done for closed-source packages, too. BTW, re-packaging is not against any license. You can even put it into official repos - just remember to use non-free for closed source things, and, use modified names... (to avoid overwriting original packages - current state of repos is so wonderful, that anyone can overwrite any essential package with anything, in -devel).
Last edited by Siren; 2012-11-22 at 09:57.
 

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