Hi, how to get rid of voluminous desktop stuff without colateral damage ? Does somebody here have experience to share about de-GNOME-ing a virtual Sid system ?
Reason why i ask: A dist-upgrade of my virtual Sid lasted nearly 2 hours and used up 4.5 GiB of its virtual disk. (About half of this was in /var/cache/apt/archives and could be deleted afterwards.) I begin to fear that the future growth of Debian will make dist-upgrades impossible on the 32 GiB virtual disk. Package names matching "gir*" and "*gnome*" support my feeble memories that the system began its life as Debian 8 installation with GNOME desktop. It is only used for preparing and testing Debian packages of upstream software. I log in via SSH, work the way down my cheat sheet, and commit the new preparations to g...@salsa.debian.org. No desktop jobs at all. Have a nice day :) Thomas
