How to remove kali-desktop-everything metapackage and keep kali-linux-default metapackage?

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What I want to do: I installed kali linux with kali-linux-everything metapackage. Now its too big to maintain, as weekly updates become larger than 1 GB+

Now I want to remove every tool that was included in kali-linux-everything, and want to keep tools of kali-linux-default only.

What I think I should try: Running this commands:

apt purge kali-linux-everything
apt install kali-linux-default

But, I think the first command will also remove python packages and create dependency problems, and thus the system will break on reboot.

What device is this on: Dell Latitude

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Some might say, “Reinstall it.” I don’t want to reinstall to the last piece. Any other way to solve?

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Open ‘Kali Tweaks’ and uncheck all the stuff you no longer want, once that’s done, do an update and upgrade and it will remove what you don’t need.

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I did it, but seems like the packages are still there… As I still getting 500mb+ update every single day…

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Can you show the output of the command `apt list ‘~i ~D?name(kali-)’ ?