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--- Begin Message ---
Package: gdm3
Version: 48.0-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer,
When I installed gdm3 in trixie, apt installed many other gnome
packages (eg. control-center, user-docs, remote-desktop), something
like 90Mb of files. When I perform 'apt-get purge gdm3' most of those
files remained. I needed to perform 'apt-get purge gdm* && apt-get
autopurge' to rid myself of all the cruft (I hope).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.2
APT prefers stable-security
APT policy: (680, 'stable-security'), (660, 'stable-updates'), (650,
'stable'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500,
'oldoldstable-security'), (450, 'testing'), (350, 'oldstable'), (300,
'oldoldstable'), (200, 'unstable'), (100, 'trixie-fasttrack'), (100,
'trixie-backports-staging'), (100, 'bookworm-fasttrack'), (100,
'bookworm-backports-staging')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gdm3 depends on:
ii accountsservice 23.13.9-7
ii adduser 3.152
ii dbus [default-dbus-system-bus] 1.16.2-2
ii dbus-bin 1.16.2-2
ii dbus-daemon 1.16.2-2
ii dconf-cli 0.40.0-5
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.40.0-5
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
pn gir1.2-gdm-1.0 <none>
pn gnome-session-bin <none>
pn gnome-session-common <none>
pn gnome-settings-daemon <none>
pn gnome-shell <none>
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 48.0-1
ii konsole [x-terminal-emulator] 4:25.04.2-1
ii kwin-x11 [x-window-manager] 4:6.3.6-1
ii libaccountsservice0 23.13.9-7
ii libaudit1 1:4.0.2-2+b2
ii libc6 2.41-12
pn libcanberra-gtk3-0 <none>
ii libcanberra0 0.30-18
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-4
pn libgdm1 <none>
ii libglib2.0-0t64 [libglib2.0-0] 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.84.4-3~deb13u1
ii libgtk-3-0t64 [libgtk-3-0] 3.24.49-3
ii libgudev-1.0-0 238-6
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.10.6+ds-2
ii libkeyutils1 1.6.3-6
pn libnss-systemd <none>
ii libpam-modules 1.7.0-5
ii libpam-runtime 1.7.0-5
ii libpam-systemd [logind] 259-1
ii libpam0g 1.7.0-5
ii librsvg2-common 2.60.0+dfsg-1
ii libselinux1 3.8.1-1
ii libsystemd0 259-1
ii libx11-6 2:1.8.12-1
ii libxau6 1:1.0.11-1
ii libxcb1 1.17.0-2+b1
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.5-1
ii plasma-workspace [x-session-manager] 4:6.3.6-2
pn policykit-1 <none>
ii polkitd 126-2
ii procps 2:4.0.4-9
ii systemd [systemd-sysusers] 259-1
ii systemd-sysv 259-1
ii sysvinit-utils [lsb-base] 3.14-4
ii ucf 3.0052
ii x11-common 1:7.7+24+deb13u1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+11
ii xiterm+thai [x-terminal-emulator] 1.10-3
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 398-1
Versions of packages gdm3 recommends:
ii at-spi2-core 2.56.2-1
ii desktop-base 13.0.4
ii plasma-workspace [x-session-manager] 4:6.3.6-2
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+9
ii xserver-xephyr 2:21.1.16-1.3+deb13u1
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.7+24+deb13u1
pn zenity <none>
Versions of packages gdm3 suggests:
pn gnome-orca <none>
ii libpam-fprintd 1.94.5-2
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 48.0-1
pn libpam-pkcs11 <none>
pn libpam-sss <none>
pn orca <none>
--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message ---
On Wed, 07 Jan 2026 at 01:02:28 -0500, boruch baum wrote:
When I installed gdm3 in trixie, apt installed many other gnome
packages (eg. control-center, user-docs, remote-desktop), something
like 90Mb of files.
This is working as intended, installing a package installs its
dependencies and recommended packages too.
When I perform 'apt-get purge gdm3' most of those files remained.
This is also working as intended: `apt-get purge` removes
configuration/state files owned by the package itself, but does not
remove files owned by the package's dependencies. For example, files
owned by gnome-control-center are not deleted until the
gnome-control-center package is removed/purged.
apt can be configured to autoremove packages that were installed
automatically as a dependency but are no longer needed, but that is not
the default: usually you need to ask for it (`apt autoremove`, or
`apt autopurge` which is an alias for `apt autoremove --purge`).
smcv
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