08-11-2020, 10:40 AM
It's worth noting that you are not bound to a distribution's default desktop environment. I believe the Pinebook Pro images focus on providing a usable graphical environment - if you are unable to use a conventional installer, you can still remove unwanted packages.
Debian offers gnome-core and gnome-shell as leaner metapackages for GNOME, should you wish to remove the gnome metapackage from a tty. If packages aren't a dependency of the metapackage (evolution-data-server is a dependency in gnome-core and gnome-shell, whereas evolution is a dependency in gnome), you can remove them without risking breakage.
Moreover, you can use the tasksel interface to install different desktop environments. Though removing a DE via this interface doesn't seem to work in the same way as via apt.
Debian offers gnome-core and gnome-shell as leaner metapackages for GNOME, should you wish to remove the gnome metapackage from a tty. If packages aren't a dependency of the metapackage (evolution-data-server is a dependency in gnome-core and gnome-shell, whereas evolution is a dependency in gnome), you can remove them without risking breakage.
Moreover, you can use the tasksel interface to install different desktop environments. Though removing a DE via this interface doesn't seem to work in the same way as via apt.
