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AapoRantalainen	2012-04-11 , 18:54
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but I still find this dependency chaos very annoying.

Just reflashed device. Updated to the PR-1.3.1 with HAM
And then continued with apt-get -s purge cherry (or apt-get remove --purge cherry) and it will only uninstall cherry and mp-fremantle-generic-pr (not hundreds of packages)

Who tried any other package?

I started to fill this wikipage with my experiments:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Fremantle_closed_packages

If somebody want join filling, I have four steps to gather basic information.

Code:

#description
apt-cache show osso-systemui-splashscreen
#Provides files:
dpkg -L osso-systemui-splashscreen
#Current version
apt-cache policy osso-systemui-splashscree
#Reverse dependencies
apt-cache showpkg osso-systemui-splashscreen

#Remove (on device which can be reflashed)
apt-get remove --purge osso-systemui-splashscreen

And then I have explicitly state what happens when removed. I have tried to be verbose and comment every aspect.

I have found it is sometimes hard to say what is critical functionality. I have never used ActiveSync, so removing ActiveSync is not losing critical functionality? I rarely use bluetooth, so it is then not critical functionality? For sure when device will not start anymore = critical.

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