On 28/04/17 09:42 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Yes, openoffice can function without all of these. (It can function without the KDE4 links and without 'base' as wel.) No, that the basic functions continue working does not define those packages as "not needed". All those things are needed.
My opinion is that is a ridiculous statement. * I do not need, I can do without, the A4 paper package. You might, but then again, not living in North America you might not need the ones I do need :-) * I do not need all those language packages. You might choose to, but I don't. I can imagine that, for example, French speakers might choose not to install the Chinese or Russian packs. I've met some very nationalistic French who seem to wish that the English language could be proscribed (and have tried legislating same). Bleachbit can be very useful :-) * More specifically, about OpenOffice/LibreOffice, I do not need all of libreoffice-icon-theme-breeze AND libreoffice-icon-theme-oxygen AND libreoffice-icon-theme-hicontrast AND libreoffice-icon-theme-tango I'm sure Fraktur fonts are very nice if you are composing degree certificates or transcribing bible passages, but I personally have no use for them. I fact there are a LOT of fonts that I can safely delete without affecting the function of any of my programmes in any way. Rpmorpahn also lists a lot of what seem to be codecs. They too are plugins. They are not essential to the _basic_ operation of many programs, but are _optional_ if you want to process certain content, just as Fraktur fonts are 'essential' if I want to produce fancy-looking degree certificates. If anyone thinks that the output of rpmorphan is a list of packages that *HAVE* to be removed or even *SHOULD* be removed, they are gravely mistaken. That is not what rpmorphan is about. If you want a tool that deals with what should sensibly be removed, then 'bleachbit' is more useful. -- STATUS QUO is Latin for "the mess we're in." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org