On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 16:52:18 -0000 (UTC) Beartooth Beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
BQ1 (Big Question 1) If I were to remove all of KDE, how would I do it? Find KDE in dnfdragora and follow my nose?? I had thought I could command "dnf remove kde" or "dnf remove KDE," and then go through the resulting list with a fine-tooth comb; but neither of those commands does anything, claiming instead not to have found anything.
You could try removing Konqueror and K3B and seeing what they want to take with them. Make sure you don't have --assumeyes set, so that you can just say n when it asks for confirmation to avoid doing anything. e.g. dnf autoremove Konqueror
BQ2 How much, at an educated guess, would I remove? Or is there a way actually to ascertain how much? Would it be worth it?
Unless disk space is an issue, why do you care? Is it the updates? Is it space for backups? Personally, I keep all the desktops installed so that if I want to use something from them, or try one of them, I don't have to wait. You don't have to go that far, but if you want to use an application that depends on a specific desktop, you have to have those dependency parts installed. If the package brought them in, they are needed because they were explicitly coded into the spec file.
Translation: You're chasing wild geese here.