On 01/01/2012 19:48, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:02:55 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:I have recently migrated to Xfce, and now I would get rid of gnome as it seems to become an heavy machinery: what is the best way to so ?I would start by removing the related metapackages (gnome, gnome-desktop- environment, gnome-core...). If removing tries to do crazy things (like deleting packages or libraries that you still want to leave installed), I would then go with a selective package removement. It will be slower but this way you ensure to keep the things you want and those that can be still needed or even useful for xfce.
In my case I went for a slightly more 'radical' (but very educational) way of backing up may home dir, reinstalling vanilla debian and then xfce4 and xfce4-goodies. Eventually I did install gnome related packages e.g. to have network-manager and such, but overall my system is much lighter. Something not directly related to xfce, but interesting for keeping installs slimmer, is a useful option for apt-get I learned in the process, it is the --no-install-recommends (which I then made permanent), as it seems recommends is abused to some extent.
Ciao, Lorenzo.