How to remove GNOME from a headless virtual Sid

From	"Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	How to remove GNOME from a headless virtual Sid
Date	2023-09-11 09:30 +0200
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Hi,

how to get rid of voluminous desktop stuff without colateral damage ?
Does somebody here have experience to share about de-GNOME-ing a
virtual Sid system ?

Reason why i ask:

A dist-upgrade of my virtual Sid lasted nearly 2 hours and used up 4.5 GiB
of its virtual disk. (About half of this was in /var/cache/apt/archives
and could be deleted afterwards.)
I begin to fear that the future growth of Debian will make dist-upgrades
impossible on the 32 GiB virtual disk.

Package names matching "gir*" and "*gnome*" support my feeble memories
that the system began its life as Debian 8 installation with GNOME
desktop.
It is only used for preparing and testing Debian packages of upstream
software. I log in via SSH, work the way down my cheat sheet, and commit
the new preparations to git@salsa.debian.org. No desktop jobs at all.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas

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How to remove GNOME from a headless virtual Sid "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-09-11 09:30 +0200
  Re: How to remove GNOME from a headless virtual Sid john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2023-09-11 10:50 +0200
  Re: How to remove GNOME from a headless virtual Sid Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2023-09-11 12:20 +0200

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