I want to remove xfce from my debian 12 system. What is the best way to do it?

  • lily33@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    That’s the way. However, I’d like to add that when I used Debian, I regularly got leftovers after uninstalling things, especially when removing big things work lots of dependencies. So expect some dependencies to remain.

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      1 year ago

      That’s just how package managers seem to work in my experience. Even using --purge on APT leaves behind a ton of junk.

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        1 year ago

        --purge does not do anything with dependencies. You will need to explicitly remove all packages that are marked as installed manually, i. e. all packages that you pointed a package manager to install. If a DE was installed automatically by Debian installer, or if you installed it with apt install xfce4, the only manually installed component it the xfce4 metapackage, and using the --auto-remove flag will remove all its dependencies. But if you additionally installed any components or packages that depend on that components, you will also need to clean them up manually.

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          1 year ago

          But if you additionally installed any components or packages that depend on that components, you will also need to clean them up manually.

          Doesn’t --autoremove purge do that?