Removing a DE?

[jmm]

Have used KDE distro's for quite awhile and wanted to sample LXDE, E17 and Gnome versions of PCLOS.

LXDE is amazing.  The simplicity, quickness and ease of use is great.  I never thought a lightweight DE could replace KDE for me but this did.

I have an original KDE install.  Is it possible to run a pure LXDE and remove E17, Gnome and KDE and all dependencies?

It seems when I go to Synaptic, mark for complete removal task-enlightenment for example it does not remove the entire 135mb package.  It just removes the shell (I assume).

Thanks for the knowledge.

[menotu]

For me personally, the effort and time of trying to remove all the various e17/KDE/Gnome components I would simply download the latest LXDE iso and install that.

pclinuxos-lxde-2012.01.iso

and there is the "mini" version (this one may possibly take a little more "expertise" to know which extra stuff to add, but Neal may be able to expand on that)

pclinuxos-lxde-mini-2012.01.iso

[djohnston]

It seems when I go to Synaptic, mark for complete removal task-enlightenment for example it does not remove the entire 135mb package.  It just removes the shell (I assume).

+1 to what menotu said. Any of the "task-" packages are meta-packages. That is, they are helpers to install a large set of packages like java or the e17 desktop. Removing the task-whatever package simply removes that one package only.