Removing meteor packages don't remove them from app

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Hello,

I’m trying to optimize my app by removing some of the atmosphere packages, culprit packages are session and service-configuration. But even though they are no longer listed in the /.meteor/packages file, they still persist in the /.meteor/versions file and are still present when running the app.
I’m developing on Windows and currently using v 1.6.1.4
Any suggestions?

Thanks

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Possibly another package utilizes said package

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You can see the whole tree of package dependencies with:

meteor list --tree

Which will show you which package is including session and service-configuration

Most commonly service-configuration comes from accounts-base or any accounts package

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Thanks. That explains the issue. It seems weird to me that if I don’t require the external login feature but only the basic login/logout feature, the service-configuration will still be installed. Especially when the doc specifically mentions to add this package in order to configure external logins.

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Yeah they could make it a weak dependency.

It doesn’t bother me much because it’s a very small dependency. After minification it ships 635 bytes to the client

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I just ran into this problem too. Was trying to remove the default meteor.loginServiceConfiguration publication that happens due to service-configuration defaultly being added to your app with accounts. This publication can cause huge bottlenecks with tons of simultaneous users (along with hot code push as well).

I ended up having to clone a copy of accounts-base into my packages folder and remove service-configuration from it entirely in order to finally kill the unwanted publication. Silly. Going to make another post about it and possibly open a bug report of it.