how to find why packages are automatically installed?
I thought I had this down by now, but I'm lost.
I am in the process of removing much of GNOME, so I removed
gnome-desktop-environment, which also removed gnome-core, and a whole
bunch of other things. I also removed evolution.
But I'm still left with a whole slew of automatically installed packages
I don't want anymore, and I can't figure out how to identify why they
are still installed. I thought the gconf2 package might be keeping them
installed, but when I selected that for removal, several packages I want
to keep (for example, quodlibet, which is not marked as automatically
installed and does not depend gconf2) were also marked for deletion. I
don't understand why that would be.
Maybe there is no "magic package" that is keeping these things installed
and I just need to selectively remove them one-by-one, along with the
packages that will break but that I don't want anymore. I just thought
I might be missing something obvious about the best way to take care of
getting rid of a bunch of automatically installed packages relatively
quickly.
Any advice?
Michael M.
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