re: how to remove Gnome and X from etch

["Nick Demou" <ndemou@gmail.com>]

2007/1/29, Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca>:
> On Mon January 29 2007 07:17, Nick Demou wrote:
> > 2007/1/29, Alan Ianson <alianson@shaw.ca>:
> > > On Mon January 29 2007 07:01, Nick Demou wrote:
> > > > In etch, what packages should I remove to get rid of X and gnome?
> > >
> > > You'll need to uninstall whatever you installed to begin with. [...]
> >
> > Someone else did the installation and included the GUI by mistake. ...
>
> I have always installed the desktop stuff after installing a base system so
> I'm not sure how the installer goes about installing gnome.
> Hopefully "apt-get remove gnome/xorg/alsa-base" (as needed) will do it for
> you. That may leave a few bits & pieces but I think that'll get most of it
> anyway.

Seems that I'll better go for the clean solution of a reinstall (it
won't take that long anyway) but I must thank everyone for their time