OOo 2.0 removal [dapper]

[Donn]

Luka, thank you for the information. I posted a question like this on the 
Ubuntu forum and got no real information, only a bunch of others people 
wondering the same thing! I'll go find it again and update it.

> It is completely safe to remove
> kubuntu-desktop, the only side effect is that when you will upgrade between
> versions (Edgy -> Feisty), you will not automatically get all default
> applications that may have been added for Feisty. 
After having no luck going from Dapper to Edgy, I have decided to stay on 
Dapper for a few years. It works and I like it. (The problem was mainly that 
there are no proper instructions for Kubuntu upgrading as the ones on the 
Ubuntu site all refer to an "upgrade manager" which Kubu hasn't got.)

In this case, I will remove Amarok and Kubuntu-Desktop and not worry about it. 
(Amarok is amazing, but my machine is just too slow for it to work properly, 
it skips and jerks and slows things down. I think it's all that ruby ... )

> So after upgrade to 
> Feisty, you may want to consider installing "kubuntu-desktop" package again
> to see what new updated it may bring to you.
I will do that when the time comes.
One point -- 
Some of us (like me) live in backwards countries (like South Africa) where 
bandwidth is horrifyingly expensive and downloading MORE packages than we 
want is a problem. I don't know what the solution is, but a screen with 
tick-boxes where I could choose the packs I want from the Desktop meta 
package would be cool.

> In Feisty some packages that kubuntu-desktop brings by default have moved
> from Depends to Recommend state: they will still be installed by default,
> but the Recommended you will be able to uninstall without removal of
> kubuntu-desktop. Examples are knetworkmanager and kde-guidance-powermanager
> as some desktop users do not need networkmanager and laptop power
> management applet and may want to remove it.
Also good to know. 

> Question to Jonathan: should we make openoffice package Recommend - some
> users would probably replace it with Koffice and would remove OOo.
My (uninvited) take : Keep OOO. It's becoming a standard. Koffice is really 
nice and quick, but I still used Writer to open the docs I saved in Kword to 
check that they worked! I think when Koffice hits Windows desktops, that's 
the time that OOO will have real competition!

/d