Gnome packages cleanup 

No depends 

switchdesk-gnome
gdk-pixbuf-gnome
metacity
yelp
nautilus

Nautilus integrates access to files, applications, media, Internet-based resources and the Web.

sawfish

— yeah, but gnome can't start any more.

Some depends 

bonobo 

% apt-get remove bonobo
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  bonobo gnome-spell
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 removed and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 4068kB disk space will be freed.
NB, 'rpm -q --whatrequires' is not enough:
$ rpm -q --whatrequires bonobo
no package requires bonobo
$ rpmqi gnome-spell
gnome-spell-0.4.1-4

Gnome Spell is a GNOME/Bonobo component for spell checking. In the current version, it contains a GNOME::Spell::Dictionary object, which provides a spell checking dictionary (see Spell.idl for exact API definition). It is based on pspell package, which is required to build gnome-spell.

oaf 

OAF is an object activation framework for GNOME. It uses ORBit.

$ rpm -q --whatrequires oaf
bonobo-1.0.20-3

Usefuls 

% apt-get remove eel2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  eel2 gedit nautilus
% apt-get remove fortune-mod
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  control-center fortune-mod xscreensaver
% apt-get remove xscreensaver
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  control-center xscreensaver
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 removed and 1 not upgraded.
% apt-get remove rep-gtk
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  rep-gtk sawfish
% apt-get remove libgnomeprint
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  eog gedit libgnomeprint libgnomeprintui nautilus
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 removed and 1 not upgraded.
% apt-get remove vte
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome-terminal vte