Hi Joey, On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 03:57:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I accidentially installed debian 10.0 with gnome rather than xfce, so > after the installation, I re-ran tasksel, unselected gnome, and selected > xfce. > [...] > Tasksel probably removed task-gnome-desktop, but many of its > dependencies appeared to still be installed.
Yes, removing task-gnome-desktop won't do much if you do not run `apt autoremove` or somesuch. Of course, making tasksel run autoremove would be a terrible idea, since it might remove unrelated packages. I'm not sure how that can be addressed, TBH.
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