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Re: Uninstalling Gnome

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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

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Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 22:50 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-28 23:30 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-28 23:40 +0100
    Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 10:20 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:40 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 17:00 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-11-29 17:10 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 17:20 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-11-29 18:10 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-11-29 18:50 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling Gnome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-29 20:00 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Seeker <seeker5528@comcast.net> - 2016-11-30 05:20 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-29 19:00 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 23:40 +0100
    Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 12:50 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-11-29 13:30 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-11-29 14:00 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:10 +0100
            Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:30 +0100
      Re: Uninstalling Gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 18:10 +0100
        Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 18:30 +0100
          Re: Uninstalling Gnome Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 20:50 +0100
  Re: Uninstalling Gnome Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 14:40 +0100
  Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome) Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 00:50 +0100
    Re: Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome) David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-30 01:30 +0100
      Re: Manually installed packages (was: Uninstalling Gnome) Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-11-30 05:30 +0100
      Re: Manually installed packages Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-11-30 14:50 +0100
        Re: Manually installed packages David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-12-01 17:10 +0100
          Re: Manually installed packages Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-12-01 18:10 +0100
            Re: Manually installed packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-01 19:40 +0100
              Re: Manually installed packages Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-12-01 20:10 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-03 14:40 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2016-12-03 19:00 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-04 10:50 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-04 11:00 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> - 2016-12-04 13:00 +0100
                Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-04 13:10 +0100
              Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-12-01 20:50 +0100
              Re: Manually installed packages Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-01 22:00 +0100
          Re: Manually installed packages Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 19:20 +0100
        Re: Manually installed packages Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2016-12-02 18:30 +0100
    Re: Manually installed packages Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-11-30 09:50 +0100

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