[Tfug] stripping the gui in a linux distro

Thu Oct 30 10:08:30 MST 2008

Assuming the OP was asking how hard is it to strip X out given an already
installed system rather than how hard is it to install without X.... (I've
installed debian from scratch without x, and it's trivial).

On my debian system, "apt-get remove x11-common" asks if it's ok to remove
348 packages that depend on X. I've not done that to see if the remains are
broken or not, but I assume it would work pretty well.

JDR

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 07:41:49AM -0700, skeptikos wrote:
> > hey, how easy is it to strip the gui in a typical (I know that's a
> > loaded term =) ) linux distro.
>
> > I've recently realized that I'm just too attached to my fvwm set up
> > to go with any of the distros offering gnome, kde, fluxbox, xfce, or
> > something else, but if I could recreate that part of my
> > environments, my stints with linux might last longer.
>
> What exactly are you asking?  On Debian proper, it's trivial to run
> without a desktop environment.  The only GNOME-related packages I have
> on my system, for example, are a few libraries that support
> network-manager.  I have a few more KDE-related packages, because I do
> run a handful of KDE apps on a semi-regular basis (e.g., Amarok, k3b).
> But, again, I certainly don't have the whole DE installed.  If you're
> on Debian, just see what'll happen when you start removing
> GNOME/KDE-related packages (i.e., aptitude -s).
>
> Earl's mentioned in the past that GNOME has worked its way pretty
> deeply into Ubuntu and that removing the GNOME packages broke his
> system.  He was able to fix it but, of course, he's Earl and you're a
> mere mortal.
>
> Claude
>
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