Uninstall Pidgin
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Is there a way to uninstall Pidgin, or will uninstalling Pidgin remove my whole desktop?
I use Gajim for IM.
You will just uninstall Pidgin. It's safe.
sudo apt remove pidgin
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Thanks! How is that possible? I thought Pidgin was part of a "trisquel" metapackage, so if you removed it, you remove the entire metapackage.
Pidgin is a dependency of trisquel-recommended or the equivalent metapackage of the chosen edition.
Removing the metapackage will do just that, it will not remove the desktop. All other dependencies of the metapackage will remain installed.
I am not completely sure about the possible consequences of running autoremove after removing a metapackage, but it looks like all the dependencies of trisquel-recommended are marked as "manual" (manually installed) and not "auto". So even if the metapackage is removed, its dependencies should not be uninstalled by running autoremove.
You can always use the -s option in order to run a simulation and see what would happen:
apt -s autoremove
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There are probably many software and packages I don't use on Trisquel (among which pidgin), but I prefer not trying to uninstall them as they don't create any trouble for me and I might be creating trouble for myself by removing things I should not remove.
One that I don't use and is creating a little trouble is icedove because of its rather large and regular updates, but I prefer keeping it in case.
Of course, it is up to you. By having trisquel-recommended uninstalled, I guess the only risk is that some day, some package is added to trisquel-recommended that you uninstalled, then you won't have it installed, possibly creating some problem. This could never happen though.
I do not think that would "possibly creat[e] some problem". Without the meta-package, upgrading will not never install new software, that Trisquel's developers would have added to the default system (as a new dependency to the meta-package). That is all.