Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.med...@gmail.com> writes: > 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?
As far as I understand up to now, from you listers' kind replies, I could safely remove all those packages that are at the same time marked as automatically installed *and* orphans. Is that the case? If so, what tool can give me those information? Thanks, cheers, Rodolfo