Somebody SURE loves them some kblocks

[Clay Weber]

On Saturday 31 October 2009 12:59:05 pm Ric Moore wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 08:50 -0400, Clay Weber wrote:
> > On Friday 30 October 2009 12:57:42 am Ric Moore wrote:
> > > I tried to remove this little innocuous stinker of a game and it wants
> > > to remove KDE-FULL. Huh, just checked that package, before I hit the
> > > shiny red-button, and that seems to include my whole $%^& KDE 
desktop.
> > > Just wondered who has the brain today and if they would PLEASE pass 
it
> > > around?? Cannot someone make it a rule to NOT dEsTrOy the user's
> > > installation when removing a package??
> > >
> > > That would be very nice. Especially for a newb that spent a week
> > > dnloading kubuntu, via a tin can in a third world country, and then
> > > hoses the entire install removing "Hunt The Wumpus".
> > >
> > > Can we be mindful and "JUST SAY NO!" ?? We need a "No Delete 
Desktop"
> > > Czar (Dept of Homeland NDD) to oversee these things.  X{ Ric
> >
> > kde-full? That package is a meta-package it is used simply to depend on
> > other packages. it isn't usually installed, or necessary - it basically
> > tells the package manager to install literally the entire set of KDE
> > packages. I believe it is a 	Debian thing that gets carried over.
> >
> > Maybe run the the command line to remove the game and post the 
results
> > so we can see exactly what is happening? When I try removing the game, 
it
> > only wants to remove itself and the meta-package kdegames.
> 
> Wouldn't just removing itself be sufficient??? That's all I wanted it to
> do, not dink with anything else, even meta-packages. It's scary as heck
> to see KDE-FULL invoked and I'm not about to beta-test it's removal.
> 
> I may be ignorant but I don't want to be stupid. :) Ric
> 
well running the command will show *exactly* what individual packages will be 
removed, then you just say no when it asks. That way we can see *exactly* 
what the package manager is really doing back there.

if the only packages being removed are the meta-packages, you are  fine, 
and is completely normal and safe. If you didn't remove the meta-package, 
every time there was an update, the particular bit you removed (kblocks) 
would be reinstalled as the meta-package (kde-full) has kblocks as a 
dependency requirement, that is it's only -purpose. Removing the meta-
package does NOT remove anything else but itself.

The package kubuntu-desktop is a similar meta-package, but it doesn't install 
literally every bit of KDE and its requirements like kde-full does, just the 
kubuntu-specific stuff and what was chosen as the default set of things.

The description for Kubuntu-created kubunu-desktop package even notes 
that it is safe to remove:
	" It is safe to remove this package if some of the desktop system 		
packages are not desired"

unfortunately, the kde-full package is a Debian package probably 
automatically converted to Ubuntu's less-maintained Universe repository.

clay


clay