I'm on vanilla Ubuntu 20.04 with Gnome 3.36 desktop.
Back in the day, I thought I would attempt compiling gnome-shell from source, and accordingly, I have installed a bunch of dev dependencies.
Now however my system partition is getting short on space, and I have no intent of building gnome-shell any more.
How could I efficiently remove those dev dependencies that I installed in context of this project?
This seems to be the list I installed manually:
meson
gcc
cmake
libecal2.0-dev
libgcr-3-dev
libgirepository1.0-dev
libgjs-dev
libmutter-6-dev
libpolkit-agent-1-dev
libstartup-notification0-dev
libgnome-desktop-3-dev
libgnome-bluetooth-dev
libnm-dev
xsltproc
sassc
libpulse-dev
asciidoc-base
Also, they had a whole bunch of additional dependencies to them.
Do I need to excerciese extra care when removing these (and their dependencies)? As in: could my system get destabilized whlie removing their dependencies?
I expect there will be several dozen, if not over a hundred packages to be removed...
/var/log/apt/. You can see when, and in which order, packages were installed. – waltinator Jul 18 '23 at 16:21