I did a minimal install of LXQt: sudo apt install lxqt-core lightdm
and discovered that the following two packages were installed as well: libthai-data/stable,now 0.1.28-3 all [installed,automatic] libthai0/stable,now 0.1.28-3 amd64 [installed,automatic] *I do not speak or write Thai* When I did the following sudo apt remove libthai* I was very surprised to see that many packages that I think are essential to running Debian properly would be removed if I answered "Yes" to the question "Do you want to continue?" What should I do? What is the best course of action? Below is the output of sudo apt remove libthai* Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Note, selecting 'libthai0' for glob 'libthai*' Note, selecting 'libthai-data' for glob 'libthai*' Note, selecting 'libthai-dev' for glob 'libthai*' Note, selecting 'libthai-doc' for glob 'libthai*' Package 'libthai-dev' is not installed, so not removed Package 'libthai-doc' is not installed, so not removed The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: adwaita-icon-theme at-spi2-core cpp cpp-10 cups-pk-helper fonts-quicksand gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-glib-2.0 gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 gir1.2-notify-0.7 gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 gir1.2-polkit-1.0 gir1.2-secret-1 gnome-accessibility-themes gnome-keyring-pkcs11 gnome-themes-extra gnome-themes-extra-data gparted-common gsfonts gsfonts-x11 gtk2-engines-pixbuf i965-va-driver intel-media-va-driver libaom0 libappstream4 libass9 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libatk1.0-data libatkmm-1.6-1v5 libatspi2.0-0 libavutil56 libblas3 libbs2b0 libcairo-gobject2 libcairo2 libcairomm-1.0-1v5 libcodec2-0.9 libcolord2 libcurl3-gnutls libdatrie1 libdav1d4 libepoxy0 libfftw3-double3 libflite1 libgdk-pixbuf-xlib-2.0-0 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libgfortran5 libgirepository-1.0-1 libglibmm-2.4-1v5 libgme0 libgomp1 libgsm1 libgstreamer1.0-0 libgtk-3-common libgtk2.0-common libigdgmm11 libisl23 libjpeg-turbo-progs liblapack3 liblightdm-gobject-1-0 liblilv-0-0 libmfx1 libmp3lame0 libmpc3 libmpfr6 libmpg123-0 libmysofa1 libnet-dbus-perl libnorm1 libnotify4 libnuma1 libopenjp2-7 libopenmpt0 libpackagekit-glib2-18 libpam-gnome-keyring libpgm-5.3-0 libpixman-1-0 libplymouth5 libpocketsphinx3 libpostproc55 libquadmath0 librabbitmq4 librest-0.7-0 librubberband2 libsamplerate0 libserd-0-0 libshine3 libsigc++-2.0-0v5 libsnappy1v5 libsord-0-0 libsoup-gnome2.4-1 libsoxr0 libspeex1 libsphinxbase3 libsratom-0-0 libsrt1.4-gnutls libssh-gcrypt-4 libstartup-notification0 libstemmer0d libswresample3 libswscale5 libtheora0 libtie-ixhash-perl libturbojpeg0 libtwolame0 libunwind8 libva-drm2 libva-x11-2 libva2 libvdpau-va-gl1 libvdpau1 libvidstab1.1 libvorbisfile3 libvpx6 libwavpack1 libwnck-3-common libx11-protocol-perl libx264-160 libx265-192 libxatracker2 libxfce4ui-common libxfce4util-bin libxfce4util-common libxfce4util7 libxfconf-0-3 libxfont2 libxklavier16 libxml-parser-perl libxml-twig-perl libxml-xpathengine-perl libxpresent1 libxres1 libxvidcore4 libxvmc1 libyaml-0-2 libzmq5 libzvbi-common libzvbi0 mesa-va-drivers mesa-vdpau-drivers ocl-icd-libopencl1 p11-kit p11-kit-modules p7zip p7zip-full packagekit packagekit-tools plymouth pocketsphinx-en-us python3-cairo python3-certifi python3-chardet python3-cups python3-cupshelpers python3-dbus python3-gi python3-idna python3-pkg-resources python3-requests python3-smbc python3-urllib3 python3-xdg qt5-style-plugin-cleanlooks qt5-style-plugin-motif qt5-style-plugin-plastique system-config-printer-udev unzip va-driver-all vdpau-driver-all x11-xserver-utils xauth xdg-utils xfconf xfonts-base xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xscreensaver-data xserver-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-libinput xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-legacy xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-fbdev xserver-xorg-video-intel xserver-xorg-video-nouveau xserver-xorg-video-qxl xserver-xorg-video-radeon xserver-xorg-video-vesa xserver-xorg-video-vmware Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following additional packages will be installed: lxqt-themes The following packages will be REMOVED: desktop-base ffmpegthumbnailer galternatives gcr gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gnome-keyring gpa gparted libavcodec58 libavfilter7 libavformat58 libayatana-ido3-0.4-0 libayatana-indicator3-7 libchromaprint1 libffmpegthumbnailer4v5 libgail-common libgail18 libgcr-ui-3-1 libgtk-3-0 libgtk-3-bin libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libpangomm-1.4-1v5 libpangoxft-1.0-0 librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common libthai-data libthai0 libwnck-3-0 libxfce4ui-2-0 lightdm lightdm-gtk-greeter lxqt-branding-debian lxqt-theme-debian pinentry-gnome3 plymouth-label qt5-gtk-platformtheme qt5-gtk2-platformtheme qt5-style-plugins system-config-printer system-config-printer-common xarchiver xfwm4 xfwm4-theme-breeze xscreensaver The following NEW packages will be installed: lxqt-themes 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 50 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 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