On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 10:58:22AM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
Any attempt to remove cura or brltty, removes gnome leaving me I assume with
a text only system by the time gnome takes all its dependency's with it.
"assume"
This is your fundamental problem here. Do you know what the "gnome"
package actually contains?
hobbit:~$ apt-cache show gnome
Package: gnome
Source: meta-gnome3
Version: 1:43+1
Installed-Size: 14
[...]
Installed size is 14. I'm pretty sure that's kilobytes.
"gnome" is a meta-package. Its purpose is to depend on a whole bunch
of other packages. That's all. It doesn't actually do anything by
itself.
Removing "gnome" will not remove any functionality, because "gnome" does
not *have* any functionality.
As long as you don't do an "apt-get autoremove" afterward, nothing else
will be deleted, other than what apt-get told you it was going to delete.
.