Found this un-noticed thread and wish to second the motion (in spirit),
but it is probably not desirable or even really necessary
to actually remove the modest package.
There may be repercussions elsewhere if it is removed.
(The correct term might be surgical exorcism, I suppose,
as uninstalling refers to reversing an installation.)
On the other hand it might free up quite a chunk of silicon?

Since this is part of the proprietary bit fiddling with it seems
like a risk left until I get a backup unit to play with.
Tomorrow, I hope.

Just never using modest works well enough for me.
Just make sure every setting in the package is disabled
and unusable so it never wakes up.

And a final thought:
the new PR 1.3 is coming, it might be worth it to just wait
and see if there is an order-of-magnitude improvement
before rushing into other problems.


(I use the claws package which is light-years ahead of modest)