Can I remove some of these packages if only using GNOME on Wayland?

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Hi,

I almost exclusively use GNOME on Wayland. Can I remove some of the xorg-* packages that was installed by default?


$ dnf list installed | grep xorg
xorg-x11-drv-amdgpu.x86_64                       23.0.0-2.fc39                     @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-ati.x86_64                          19.1.0-10.fc39                    @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-evdev.x86_64                        2.10.6-14.fc39                    @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-fbdev.x86_64                        0.5.0-13.fc39                     @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-intel.x86_64                        2.99.917-56.20210115.fc39         @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-libinput.x86_64                     1.4.0-1.fc39                      @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau.x86_64                      1:1.0.17-6.fc39                   @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-openchrome.x86_64                   0.6.400-6.20210215git5dbad06.fc39 @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-qxl.x86_64                          0.1.6-2.fc39                      @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-vesa.x86_64                         2.5.0-6.fc39                      @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-vmware.x86_64                       13.4.0-2.fc39                     @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-wacom.x86_64                        1.2.0-2.fc39                      @anaconda             
xorg-x11-drv-wacom-serial-support.x86_64         1.2.0-2.fc39                      @anaconda             
xorg-x11-server-Xorg.x86_64                      1.20.14-28.fc39                   @updates              
xorg-x11-server-Xwayland.x86_64                  23.2.3-1.fc39                     @updates              
xorg-x11-server-common.x86_64                    1.20.14-28.fc39                   @updates              
xorg-x11-xauth.x86_64                            1:1.1.2-4.fc39                    @anaconda             
xorg-x11-xinit.x86_64                            1.4.2-1.fc39                      @updates

My CPU-iGPU:

CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 4800U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64
    type: MT MCP cache: L2: 4 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1450 min/max: 1400/1800 cores: 1: 1400 2: 1800 3: 1400
    4: 1400 5: 1424 6: 1397 7: 1397 8: 1400 9: 1397 10: 1400 11: 1800 12: 1400
    13: 1397 14: 1400 15: 1400 16: 1400
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir [Radeon RX Vega 6 ] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Display: wayland server: X.Org v: 23.2.3 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.3
    compositor: gnome-shell v: 45.3 driver: dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 23.3.3 renderer: AMD Radeon
    Graphics (radeonsi renoir LLVM 17.0.6 DRM 3.54 6.6.9-200.fc39.x86_64)
  API: EGL Message: EGL data requires eglinfo. Check --recommends.
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Here are some commands that could be of use to you :

dnf deplist xorg-* This will give you a comprehensive list of things to look over as you make your decision.

You can check the repolist for some more stuff, but this might be too much IMO
dnf repoquery --whatrequires xorg*

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Thanks @hamrheadcorvette for the swift reply!

Do I understand this correctly that dnf deplist xorg-* will give a list of what xorg-* depends on and dnf repoquery --whatrequires xorg* a list of what depends on xorg-* ?

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I don’t really recommend doing this (what’s the point?), but you can uninstall xorg-x11-server-Xorg, which will take most of those packages.

You must keep Xwayland; it lets you run X11 apps inside a Wayland session, and it’s a hard depedency of GNOME.

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dnf deplist xorg-*
This command will list the dependencies and also show if other packages depend on it.

And : dnf repoquery --whatrequires xorg* This command will list the packages that depend on it.

From the Docs :

Searches available DNF repositories for selected packages 
and displays the requested information about them.
 It is an equivalent of rpm -q for remote repositories.
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Thank you both @hamrheadcorvette and @chrisawi for your replies!

I could remove all but two xorg-* packages, xorg-x11-xauth.x86_64 and xorg-x11-xinit.x86_64. The first is required by the second which is apparently required by gdm and will break gnome-shell if removed :grimacing:

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