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. -- Liam