Re: how to remove GUI

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

Thanks for the explanation of the autoremove intent (I had never seen that 
explanation before (never looked for it, didn't think I needed it (so far), 
but the understanding is helpful).

Nothing new below this line.

On Friday, September 11, 2020 07:53:26 AM Greg Wooledge wrote:
> In the more general case, there are two strategies to remove a whole
> bunch of packages that have a dependency tree relationship.  The first
> strategy, which is relatively new, is to count on "apt autoremove",
> which is a relatively new feature and has a lot of quirky behavior.
> The concept here is that, when you installed the top-level package of
> the large dependency tree (whether that's "gnome-core" or
> "task-something"), apt will have marked that one package as "manually
> installed", and anything else that was brought in at the same time, would
> not be so marked.  Then, when you want to remove all of them, you first
> remove the same top-level package.  This doesn't do much on its own, but
> now all of the dependent packages have nothing anchoring them.  So if you
> follow up with an "apt autoremove", it should, in theory, remove all of
> the dependent packages.
> 
> In my experience, that doesn't work very well, so I've disabled autoremove
> on my system.