I want to remove xfce from my debian 12 system. What is the best way to do it?

  • AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I think that: sudo apt purge xfce4* sudo apt autoremove

    should do it.

    I’ll point out that the other answers here are also correct. It depends on how you want to clean it from your system.

    “apt remove” will only remove the packages, not the config files
    “apt purge” will remove the packages and config files
    “apt autoremove” will clean up the orphaned dependencies
    “xfce4” will only remove the DE
    “xfce4*” will remove the DE and most of the other packages that come with xfce

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        1 year ago

        Not every package that comes with xfce has a name that starts with xfce4, just most of them do. You may need to identify and remove other packages too.

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          1 year ago

          This is why I hate apt

          In NixOS when you remove the package from the list of packages you don’t have the symlinks pointing to it anymore, so it is like it’s not there (you can garbage collect it)

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      1 year ago

      That’s a lot easier than my method of loading synaptic, searching the DE name, then marking everything for removal.