Thanks Andrew. I went ahead and after backing up everything I removed the packages and so far I don't see any problems. My first approach indeed was to simply set permissions so these would not be accessible other than by someone with admin priviledges. Unfortunately the admin person insisted these be removed so that she would not have to "deal" with them...go figure. Anyhow, I also went ahead and rm -rf the extra packages from the packages directory with no problems as would be expected. I know this was a rather trivial question, but I have seen some issues related to uninstalling packages so I thought I'd ask. Thanks for the response. 😊)
