[PLUG] Slackpkg...

[Michael Barnes]

I might be confused, as is often the case, but doesn't xfce use X11? I
thought it was just a lightweight desktop, but still a GUI using X. As far
as a simple server goes, a P4 should be plenty of horsepower. Back in the
day, I used 386s for a lot of simple server duties. Of course that was
running Red Hat 5.1 I think. If you're just running a server and using CLI,
you don't even need xfce. Just stay in runlevel 3 and never get to the X
stuff. Unless drive space is tight, (unusual these days) I would think you
could just leave all those X packages alone. They won't run or use any
resources unless you start them.

Also, I have no experience with Slackware, when you install the OS, don't
you have a server install option that does not install all the X stuff?

Michael


On Dec 13, 2016 01:04, "Michael C. Robinson" <michael at robinson-west.com>
wrote:

> I'm running slackware 14.2 on a very simple server.  The box is only a
> Pentium 4, so I decidedly don't want X Windows and I want to save
> space.  I started out with slackware 14.1 and xfce I believe.  I am
> manually removing via pkgtool everything X11 that is obvious and a few
> other things, but manual is dangerous.  Is there a better way with
> slackpkg to catch those remaining libraries that can be removed safely
> to save even more space?
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