:: Re: [DNG] X11: safe to remove?
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Szerző: Dimitris
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Címzett: dng
Tárgy: Re: [DNG] X11: safe to remove?
iirc (seen it in buster upgrades), pinentry-gtk2 / pinentry-gnome3 bring
in xauth package, which brings in X11.
i would remove pinentry+xauth packages first, then X11 with autoremove -
deborphan, and install pinentry-ncurses later, if needed..

2c,
d.


On 9/29/20 4:57 AM, tempforever via Dng wrote:
> I manage a few remote servers that are running Devuan. Recently (last
> week) I noticed a couple updates to some x11 libraries. I went ahead
> and updated. But now, I'm wondering if it's okay to remove them
> altogether? I do not use any graphical user interface on them. I only
> connect via ssh, and issue text-only commands.
>
> I'm a little concerned about just removing these libraries though. The
> one in particular that I remembered updating was libx11-6. Apparently
> there is a bit of dependencies on it, and I don't want to break anything.
>
> On beowulf:
> # apt remove libx11-6
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
>    fontconfig-config fonts-dejavu-core libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-common
> libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2
>    libfontconfig1 libfontenc1 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa libglvnd0
> libice6 libllvm7 libpciaccess0 libsm6 libx11-data libx11-xcb1
>    libxau6 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0 libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0
> libxcb-shape0 libxcb-sync1 libxcb1 libxdmcp6 libxshmfence1
>    x11-common
> Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>    libgl1 libglew2.1 libglu1-mesa libglx-mesa0 libglx0 libx11-6 libxaw7
> libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3
>    libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxpm4 libxrandr2
> libxrender1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1 libxxf86vm1
>    mesa-utils x11-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 29 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> After this operation, 8,081 kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

>
> I don't think I should need any font or drm stuff.
> On ascii, I get a much longer list:
>
> # apt remove libx11-6
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
> required:
>    dconf-gsettings-backend dconf-service fontconfig fontconfig-config
> fonts-dejavu-core gconf-service gconf2-common glib-networking
>    glib-networking-common glib-networking-services
> gsettings-desktop-schemas hicolor-icon-theme libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data
>    libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libblas-common
> libblas3 libck-connector0 libcolord2 libcroco3 libcups2
>    libdatrie1 libdconf1 libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau2
> libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libepoxy0 libfontconfig1 libfontenc1
>    libgbm1 libgck-1-0 libgconf-2-4 libgcr-3-common libgcr-base-3-1
> libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgfortran3 libgl1-mesa-dri libglapi-mesa
>    libgnome-keyring-common libgnome-keyring0 libgraphite2-3
> libgtk-3-common libgtk2.0-common libgtop-2.0-10 libgtop2-common
>    libharfbuzz0b libice6 libjbig0 libjpeg62-turbo libjson-glib-1.0-0
> libjson-glib-1.0-common liblapack3 liblcms2-2 libllvm3.9
>    libpam-gnome-keyring libpango-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpciaccess0
> libpixman-1-0 libproxy1v5 libquadmath0 librest-0.7-0
>    libsecret-1-0 libsecret-common libsm6 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoup2.4-1
> libthai-data libthai0 libtiff5 libtxc-dxtn-s2tc0
>    libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-server0 libwebp6
> libx11-data libx11-xcb1 libxau6 libxcb-dri2-0 libxcb-dri3-0
>    libxcb-glx0 libxcb-present0 libxcb-render0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0
> libxcb-sync1 libxcb-util0 libxcb-xfixes0 libxcb1 libxdmcp6
>    libxkbcommon0 libxshmfence1 p11-kit p11-kit-modules python-numpy
> x11-common xkb-data
> Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
> The following additional packages will be installed:
>    elogind libelogind0 libpam-elogind pinentry-curses python-urwid
> wicd-curses
> Suggested packages:
>    pinentry-doc
> Recommended packages:
>    policykit-1
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>    adwaita-icon-theme analog at-spi2-core consolekit dbus-x11 gconf2 gcr
> gksu gnome-keyring gtk-update-icon-cache libatk-bridge2.0-0
>    libatspi2.0-0 libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2 libegl1-mesa libgail-common
> libgail18 libgcr-ui-3-1 libgd3 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgksu2-0
>    libgl1-mesa-glx libglade2-0 libglew2.0 libglu1-mesa libgtk-3-0
> libgtk-3-bin libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libnotify4
>    libpam-ck-connector libpangocairo-1.0-0
> libpolkit-backend-consolekit-1-0 libpolkit-gobject-1-0
> libpolkit-gobject-consolekit-1-0
>    librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libstartup-notification0
> libwayland-egl1-mesa libx11-6 libxaw7 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1
>    libxext6 libxfixes3 libxft2 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxmu6 libxmuu1
> libxpm4 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxt6 libxtst6 libxv1 libxxf86dga1
>    libxxf86vm1 mesa-utils notification-daemon pinentry-gnome3
> pinentry-gtk2 python-cairo python-glade2 python-gtk2 python-notify
>    wicd-gtk x11-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    elogind libelogind0 libpam-elogind pinentry-curses python-urwid
> wicd-curses
> 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 71 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 1,632 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 68.8 MB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n

>
>
> If it were something local where I could plug in a keyboard and monitor
> to log in if something went wrong, I would just go ahead and try it
> without too much thought. But since I have no physical access, if
> something like ssh (or its authentication) fails for some reason, it'd
> take a lot more time to restore things.
>
> Is there any harm or benefit to leaving these things installed? Is this
> a case of, "if it's not broke, don't fix it"? Thank you for any response.
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