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#6 Re: What is the 'safest' way to Remove X11 Posted by muondude (130.221.xx.xx) on Thu 22 Sep 2005 at 00:07 Steve: Thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a try. Your suggestions are in line with where I wanted to go. As to the 'why', excellent question... and here's my stab at an answer: 1. I don't like having stuff that I don't need or use (you are right... it just makes me feel better); 'software clutter' ;-) 2. Security: having all these files that I don't need or want and worrying about how they might present a vulnerability 3. Concern over how one of these packages I don't need might have a dependency and start installing more stuff I don't need 4. Worry that a configuration might get changed and upon reboot I find myself with a system that is trying to start X and it hangs or hoses me (it happened a couple of years age when I first started playing with Debian). -- Sam PS: while this has been a minor headache, I have to state that I am 110% happy with Debian. I've had this sever running for several years and it has been rock solid, easy to maintain (except for this issue) and easy to back up (I have a combination of Perl scripts and rsync that backup stuff to a separate system with a 250GB disk.). All this for free!! In fact I try to donate a few $$ to the Debian project every year. When I think about how well this system works its least I can do.

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