Adding on top of your concern...
I've been using Fedora as the distro of choice for my production machine since Fedora
21, ad KDE as my DE of choice. Whenever a new release is made available, I don't
upgrade - instead, I back up all my personal content and deploy it as a brand new, fresh
bare metal release. And in these occasions I make use of netinstall (don't download a
full ISO file). With netinstall I select KDE as my desktop of choice and focus on
KDE-related items only in the items selection window.
Does that prevent from installing other DE (e.g. Gnome) related stuff I'll never use?
Any comment would be welcome, thank you!