Re: can I safelly remove gnome ?
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 08:14 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> > On 14/11/11 11:19, Joao Ferreira Gmail wrote:
> >> Can I safelly "apt-get remove/purge gnome"
> >>
> > Depends on what you call 'safely' and on what you are going to remove
> > (gnome is actually dozens of pakcages). Side effects will be all of
> > those not-so-evidetlty-related-to-gnome packages which you might remove
> > and which are doing important stuff on your system, for example gdm3,
> > network manager, gedit etc. Policykit stuff probably
> >>
> >> Has anyone done this before ?
> >
> > Yes I did it. Although I don't think just purging gnome tout-court has
> > any motive if not experimental/learning. The best option would probably
> > be fresh install with xfce4.
>
> <snip>
>
> That's what I did: D-i Wheezy, change sources to Sid, dist-upgrade +
> install xfce4 + all my usual packages, just no gnome-<anything>.
>
ok guys. I guess I really should be carefull :)
Thanks for the hints.
João
> Hugo
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