Ken Heard composed on 2016-07-17 11:49 (UTC-0400):

> ...Most of
> the bloat however comes from installation of a DE; I deliberately did
> not install any of the DEs favoured by Debian.  Consequently I had to
> install the x-window-system before installing the DE of my choice....

As every DE depends on X, required X packages will automatically be installed 
simply by installing even a minimal TDE. There's been no need for me to take 
the extra step in Debian, *buntu, Mageia, Fedora or openSUSE.
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