Re: Uninstalling Gnome

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

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

> On 2016-11-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
> The deborphan command identifies those packages which other packages do
> not require. It doesn't "know" which packages you use. The
> identification of unwanted packages among those listed by deborphan is
> done by you.


Then deborphan can't be of help for my problem...

Rodolfo