On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 02:19:50PM +0200, Erik Brangs wrote: > That's good to know. I don't want to purge xserver-xorg-video-nouveau because > Synaptic tells me that this would require removing task-desktop, > task-xfce-desktop and xserver-xorg-video-all. The names of those packages > sound like they should be kept.
Any package beginning with task- is a meta-package which can be safely removed. The sole purpose of a meta-package is to bring in other packages as dependencies. It has no content of its own. There are some other meta-packages that don't begin with task-. They usually self-identify in their descriptions, if you can't figure it out just from the overly generic name and the small installed size.
