[csw-maintainers] Removing old packages from the OS

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Dagobert Michelsen's message of Wed Nov 24 03:13:03 -0500 2010:

> Kidding aside, I rarely remove a CSW package, mostly because it
> probably has pulled in large dependencies which I am not aware of
> and removing just a single package doesn't gain much and finding the
> unnecessary dependencies later is hard.

I'm generally the same.  Every now and then I may remove something via
pkgrm if I know that it's a leaf node in the dep chain and I was just
testing it out...

-Ben
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