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