Re: Uninstalling Gnome
On 2016-11-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
You can use it to identify those GNOME packages which can be safely
removed, which I thought was the point of your original post. Running
deborphan again will reveal another layer of GNOME packages which have
become candidates for removal. You can do the whole thing interactively
by running 'orphaner -a' as root.
--
Liam
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