How do you have any graphical apps installed at all, without it grabbing any/all of the entire "*-desktop" group of packages as dependencies? What GUI apps do y

How do you have any graphical apps installed at all, without it grabbing any/all of the entire "*-desktop" group of packages as dependencies? What GUI apps do you use? I'm very interested in replicating your setup here, so if you have this documented, do you care to share?