Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2016-11-29, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Liam O'Toole <liam.p.oto...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On 2016-11-28, Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@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