dep composed on 2018-06-28 14:16 (UTC-0400):

> the issue is the presence of frigging gnome, i believe. how can i be rid of
> this contagion and all its friends and relatives?

I install including

	tasks=standard base-installer/install-recommends=false

on installation kernel cmdline, and get none of Gnome or GTK until installing
Firefox or something else that depends on GTK3.
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