Re: Uninstalling Gnome

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

Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> writes:

> 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?


As far as I understand up to now, from you listers' kind replies, I could
safely remove all those packages that are at the same time marked as
automatically installed *and* orphans.  Is that the case?  If so, what tool can
give me those information?

Thanks, cheers,

Rodolfo