Hi
I just switched to Debian from Kubuntu and I find it much faster and solid. However, there's one very annoying thing: stupid gnome dependencies in KDE. I hate gnome and gtk and I don't want to have this trash installed. Why when I choose KDE in the installer it installs gimp, firefox and many trash from gnome like dconf, gnome-keyring and so on? Why there's even an option about package popularity contest if the installer enforces users to have gimp (probably the most popular non-core package in Debian, I guess..) and parts of gnome automatically installed? If I choose gnome DE will it bring Krita, qt and Konqueror? I bet it won't. I could stand it, but when I want to remove all of this trash apt-get marks many KDE packages as autoinstalled and wants to remove them as well. I miss old days when we were able to choose each component during installation and aptitude which was able to track unneeded packages nicely. I'm now trying to install just core packages and then install KDE without additional bloat. If you have some other ideas I'd like to hear them. Sorry for being harsh, but this gnome madness across many good distributions makes me sick and Kubuntu became hardly usable this days.
Ps. I'm using Debian strech (testing).