GuTSy is slow!

[Derek Broughton]

Mario Vukelic wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 11:46 -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> However, even if you uncheck bluetooth management, if you check System
>> Monitir you'll find that 'bluetooth-applet' is still there - sleeping,
>> but taking up memory nonetheless.
> 
> See he very next sentence in the post to which Derek replied:
> 
> "Still, how hard is it to click menu System | Administration | Services,
> and remove the check mark from "bluetooth management"? Which immediately
> shuts down the daemons on my machine. The applet can be removed from
> startup in System | Preferences | Session (where, incidentally, you can
> also disable trackerd)."

hmm.  That implies that _I_ said that - but you and I both know that you
wrote it :-)  
> 
>> I've found that using synaptic (Mark for Complete Removal)
>> is a better choice for me when doing this, as sometimes I miss the side
>> apps when doing from the command line. For instance, in bluetooth's
>> case: bluez-cups, bluez-gnome, bluez-pin, bluez-utils, etc.
> 
> Just FYI:
> 
> "aptitude show <package>" will give you a list of Depends, Recommends,
> and Suggests. "apt-cache showpkg <package> will give you the, often
> particularly helpful, reverse dependencies (which other packages depend
> on this package).

otoh, if (like me) you always use aptitude to do your installs, removing a
package removes all of it's dependencies _and_ recommends, that aren't
required by other packages.  Removing a dependency often has a huge cascade
as it removes a package that depends on it, then removes all of the
packages that _it_ installed.
-- 
derek