Re: Uninstalling Gnome

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2016-11-28, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all Debian users.
>>
>> When I freshly installed Debian on my present system, I chose Gnome as
>> my Desktop manager, then I switched to Openbox.  To free space, now I
>> want to remove all those Gnome packages that I haven't used any more
>> but am not sure what of them I may delete without perturbing the
>> system.  How can I know?  More in general, is there a way to know what
>> packages one is not using and so can be removed?
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> Rodolfo
>>
>>
>
> See the deborphan package. It is useful for trimming unwanted (and
> unneeded) packages from your system.


I ran `deborphan --guess-all' but it seems to me that it wants to remove some
packages that I use a lot, like, e.g., musixtex and pmx.  So it doesn't seem to
be very reliable...

Rodolfo