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Bug#939070: removing gnome desktop in tasksel has little or no effect



Hi Joey,

On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 03:57:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I accidentially installed debian 10.0 with gnome rather than xfce, so
> after the installation, I re-ran tasksel, unselected gnome, and selected
> xfce.
> [...]
> Tasksel probably removed task-gnome-desktop, but many of its
> dependencies appeared to still be installed.

Yes, removing task-gnome-desktop won't do much if you do not run
`apt autoremove` or somesuch.

Of course, making tasksel run autoremove would be a terrible idea,
since it might remove unrelated packages.

I'm not sure how that can be addressed, TBH.

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