I found then all updating on a Pi Zero W. (Recent Lite install with no GUI.) They were never intentionally installed.They shouldn't be needed. None of them are installed on my pi500 with XFCE with xorg. That said they also won't hurt anything.
They certainly hurt the time it takes to upgrade a Pi running from an SD card. I followed @trejan's suggestion and uninstalled them. Nothing else is listed as an "autoremove" or additional package removal so there is nothing that pulled them in as a dependency.
best,
Statistics: Posted by HankB — Wed Apr 16, 2025 3:54 am