[SOLVED] Slackware current.installed on 2nd HDD.is it OK to remove dev packages?
by san2ban from LinuxQuestions.org on (#55400)
1. The itch was there from a long time...yesterday, satisfied it
2. Jun26 iso from bear alienbase failed to download after 6 attempts. Downloaded Jun23 iso from princeton edu mirror..speed never fell below 1mbps
3. Installed and upgraded
4. Kernel upgrade takes a long time....for around 6 minutes, it keeps on deleting old files....Desktop PC...UPS has failed..recession...cant buy another one..was praying to god that power does not interrupt.
5. Texlive--package--files deleted for 8 min...took 6min to install...
Finally, I got fed-up and decided to remove things I do not need. I am not a programmer / developer, just an end user with technical (Electronics) background, does not like MS$ products
1. Removed Rust, Ruby...I want to remove golang also. This should not hinder the normal working of this PC, right? I have removed thunderbird, seamonkey and some emulator for emacs, nano. When emacs, nano itself are installed, why we need these emulators?
(I use LibreOffice, VLC, heavily, but not included in the 3.3GB ISO. DVD can take up to 4.7GB. Wonder why this is left out.
I hope to reduce the burden on upgrades, by keeping only what is needed
My query.
1. Pl. inform if this install will be adversely affected as a result of above actions
2. Pl. inform what other things I may safely remove, to make this lightweight. KDE not at all installed
2. Jun26 iso from bear alienbase failed to download after 6 attempts. Downloaded Jun23 iso from princeton edu mirror..speed never fell below 1mbps
3. Installed and upgraded
4. Kernel upgrade takes a long time....for around 6 minutes, it keeps on deleting old files....Desktop PC...UPS has failed..recession...cant buy another one..was praying to god that power does not interrupt.
5. Texlive--package--files deleted for 8 min...took 6min to install...
Finally, I got fed-up and decided to remove things I do not need. I am not a programmer / developer, just an end user with technical (Electronics) background, does not like MS$ products
1. Removed Rust, Ruby...I want to remove golang also. This should not hinder the normal working of this PC, right? I have removed thunderbird, seamonkey and some emulator for emacs, nano. When emacs, nano itself are installed, why we need these emulators?
(I use LibreOffice, VLC, heavily, but not included in the 3.3GB ISO. DVD can take up to 4.7GB. Wonder why this is left out.
I hope to reduce the burden on upgrades, by keeping only what is needed
My query.
1. Pl. inform if this install will be adversely affected as a result of above actions
2. Pl. inform what other things I may safely remove, to make this lightweight. KDE not at all installed