It seems okay to remove purple-mm-sms now, I just removed it and verified that I can still receive MMS afterwards,
The purple-mm-sms package was needed earlier but apparently not anymore, I’m not sure why but it could be that the functionality has been built into either chatty of mmsd-tng or some combination of those. Probably @kop316 could explain it to us, if he has time and if we ask nicely.