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Today I made to final choice to completely make the step to Debian and leave Windows behind me after 5 years. I am a linux user for over 3 years and I started using it now. Period.
But there seems to be having issue's with Synaptic, When I select certain packages Synaptic wants to remove Gnome-desktop-environment but I do not want that because all I have left then is the console after a reboot.
How can I un-install some packages without removing Gnome-desktop-environment with it?
Well, it all depends on which packages you're wishing to remove. If you're trying to remove a package on which another package depends, the depending package will be removed as well.
The actual gnome-desktop-environment package is a 'fake' package and can be removed without really removing anything. If it wants to remove other stuff then I might be worried.
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