XFCE no bloat

[Jimfox]

I want to install XFCE in Ubuntu Minimal, but I don't want all the games and multi media that comes with it. I only want what I have to have for it to run. Anyone know how?

[ajgreeny]

If you installed xubuntu-desktop metapackage you would get everything that is included in xubuntu, including all those packages, games etc etc that you don't want.

However, I think that if you install the metapackage xfce4 it will not bring in any games with it, just thunar file-manager, xfce panel, and all the libraries and utilities needed for the DE.