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Hi all.

Is it normal to use rpm -e --no-deps to remove google-fonts ?

It seems I need to remove libre-office too.....

Any ideas?

We don't have a package named google-fonts in our repositories:

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[doktor5000@Mageia5]─[20:49:54]─[~] urpmf -f --name google-fonts
[doktor5000@Mageia5]─[20:50:13]─[~]

Please show the output of

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rpm -qa|sort|grep google

and it may also help if you would mention why in particular you want to uninstall this package.

I tried to keep it general, thought is was obvious, but OK, these two: google-crosextra-caladea-fonts and: google-crosextra-carlito-fonts
And I want google-guice to go too. Jboss, maven are difficult too. and others. Jetty & Ant got installed sometime for ?? Never used.

Often, I find, one can install anything, but to get it OFF again....... maybe too many dependancies on the packages?
One should have a smart, logging installer, that knows and asks if to de-install the installed dependencies too, if possible.

And I want the google stuff off my main machine (my mobile is just secondary) because it is my prerogative as an owner.

Yes, you have opened a can of worms.

For google-crosextra-caladea-fonts and google-crosextra-carlito-fonts you would also need to remove libreoffice, or you need to remove them using rpm -e --nodeps
google-guice can be uninstalled, but might remove some other packages from the jave stack, like maven,xmvn,hadoop.

For maven and jboss you can try as root with

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urpme -a maven
urpme -a jboss

And google stuff - you recognise the first two you mentioned are two free font packages that google provides as alternative to some proprietary fonts ...
Although google-guice does not belong to a default install, so it must have been installed explicitly. But sure it's your prerogative.

OK, I have the two google fonts off.

For the rest: not clear what it will do to the system, so I will (have to) let it be.

aa-kk wrote:OK, I have the two google fonts off.

Does your system now feel somewhat safer with those bad google fonts removed?

Yes, boots better. No hibernate yet, but maybe, in time.

It boots better because you removed two fonts?

Every bit helps, where ever it may be.

Big bit: trying to find a need for keeping java on my system; if not, it goes too.
(Java 1.8 is supposed to have good multithreading, but what serious Java-apps do I have? None, I think)