Oscar wrote:
jojojo and I didn't worry about space but I think is not ok, that
I want
to uninstall something with only 12k and 3 iNodes and I also have to
unisntall allmost all the important packages on my system, I do not know
how this thing is implemented(and I do not care) but in my opiniĆ³n is
wrong even if all is just 12k or if it's 1 GB. I have to leave it that
way 'cause I have no other choice :P maybe use Windows but i think is
forbidden in the ten commandments and I'm not a sinner [?]
I'll tell you a dirty little secret: There's lots of other hardware support
code for hardware you don't have which is required by various dependencies.
Usually libraries which we have to build the packages against so they
support that hardware. That's why there are distros for control freaks
(e.g. Gentoo) which build everything from source and allow you to disable
stuff (and end up with something completely untested as a result). Needless
to say, I think you'd be wasting a lot more time rebuilding everything from
source than downloading a few kilobytes of unneeded (for you) hardware
support libraries. :-)
Kevin Kofler