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I think Claudius Hubig was right with the observation that task-desktop pulled many packages: As proposed by Andrei POPESCU, I have unmarkauto the specific xserver-xorg-video that matches my hardware. Here is the consequnces: $ aptitude -sy remove xserver-xorg-video-all Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... Reading extended state information... Initializing package states... Reading task descriptions... The following packages will be REMOVED: xserver-xorg-video-all 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 63.5 kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: task-desktop : Depends: xserver-xorg-video-all but it is not going to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) task-desktop 2) task-lxde-desktop The following packages will be REMOVED: gimp{u} gimp-data{u} gnome-accessibility-themes{u} gnome-themes-standard{u} gnome-themes-standard-data{u} hyphen-en-us{u} libamd2.2.0{u} libbabl-0.1-0{u} libfs6{u} libgegl-0.2-0{u} libgimp2.0{u} libilmbase6{u} liblightdm-gobject-1-0{u} libmng1{u} libopenexr6{u} libopenraw1{u} libpoppler-glib8{u} libsdl1.2debian{u} libumfpack5.4.0{u} libwmf0.2-7{u} libxklavier16{u} lightdm{u} lightdm-gtk-greeter{u} lxde{u} lxtask{u} task-desktop{a} task-lxde-desktop{a} x11-apps{u} x11-session-utils{u} x11-xfs-utils{u} xinit{u} xorg{u} xsane{u} xsane-common{u} xserver-xorg-video-all 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 35 to remove and 4 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 91.0 MB will be freed. Would download/install/remove packages. $ $ aptitude show gimp | grep -i ^auto Automatically installed: yes I haven't persued the full rdepends graph for each of these packages. There seem no other reason why they would be removed. Thinking about it, all the specific xserver-xorg-video drivers that does NOT match my hardware seem to be automatically installed, and rdepends only on xserver-xorg-video-all. Why none of them will be removed when removing xserver-xorg-video-all? I mean, none of them appear in the output above. Would one need to remove them manually? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130603010515.gb16...@nt1.in