On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 20:43:33 +0800
Ed Greshko wrote:
I do not know the role they play. I suppose you could move them out
of the way and
see if there are any adverse effects. Their removal may cause subsequent problems,
verification may fail, when those packages are updated.
If you do decide you want to beat firefox and thunderbird over the head, this
might have some useful info about making mods to bits of packages so they
stick around across updates:
http://tomhorsley.com/game/Mjolnir.html
I use it to automagically re-apply any changes I've made to installed
system files after an update that might have put the stuff I don't want
back (an extreme hack, but after it worked, I stopped improving it
so it never got "elegant" :-).