[SFOS X] How to remove sociald / jolla-settings-accounts-extensions- packages? [answered]

answered 2018-02-28 11:56:55 +0200

ghling
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It's been a long time , but I want to give an update for those interested:

I just went for it and removed the packages with rpm, ignoring the dependencies. Even though this obviously breaks some dependencies, I didn't notice any issues and all the unneeded templates I don't need are gone in Accounts (and share menus). I suspect they were primary introduced for convenience, so that you can install all of them via one package.

To remove the packages, do the following steps. WARNING: As always, you are doing this at your own risk. Removing packages can cause serious and unforeseen issues.

Find the exact name (and version number) of the packages you want to remove. I used pkcon and searched for all sociald packages:

pkcon search name sociald

The packages are probably named after their purpose, with 'signon' meaning the possibility to add an account in Settings -> Accounts, 'calendars' being the calendar sync / sharing, 'contacts' the contacts sync / sharing and so on (I did not verified this!).

To remove a specific package, you have to use rpm since its the only tool which supports ignoring dependencies (at least the only one I found which is installed by default). The syntax is rpm -e --nodeps <package>, so to remove the facebook contact package use:

rpm -e --nodeps sociald-facebook-contacts-0.1.64-10.3.2.jolla.armv7hl

I did this for all packages except the sociald package itself since other packages depend on it. Since I neither use Google nor Facebook, Twitter, VK or any other "other peoples computer" services (except my own nextcloud server), all those unnecessary entries are gone.