Re: gimp and gvfs dependency
Reply #4 –
More relevant to the now locked automounting topic, apologies in advance if required, gvfs and udisks2 are deps of the Mate desktop and cannot be removed - well possibly but it would take a bit of effort I expect. However:
Disable automount:
$ gsettings set org.mate.media-handling automount false
I don't know exactly what that does under the hood to be able to reproduce the behavior on DE's without something like that but it works great on Mate.