Save to remove these packages?

[Reinhold Rumberger]

Am Freitag 24 Dezember 2010, um 09:51:20 schrieb Dotan Cohen:
> In Kubuntu 10.10 with the Backports repo enabled Aptitude wants to
> remove some packages to perform a dist-upgrade. It looks safe to me,
> but I would appreciate a second opinion. Thanks:
> 
>        Remove the following packages:

<snip> 

> 3)       kubuntu-debug-installer
> I can live without debugging.

If you want to report bugs to KDE, you may want to keep this.

> 4)       kubuntu-desktop
> Seems to be only a metapackage, the description says that it is safe to
> remove.

It's safe to remove unless you want to upgrade. And by that I don't only mean 
dist-upgrades...
It doesn't really use up any disk space and normally shouldn't be in the way, 
so if you can, leave this.

<snip> 

> 6)       kubuntu-notification-helper
> This might actually be a problem. Will I get notifications and see
> file transfers in another way?

This has nothing to do with KDE's notification functionality. It simply 
provides notifications of updates, required reboots, etc. (see package 
description)

> 7)       language-selector-qt
> This also might be a problem. I have three keyboard layouts, will I
> still be able to use them?

This allows you to set the *language*, not the keyboard layout.

<snip>

The rest I personally consider safe to uninstall, but then I don't use the 
(crappy) kpackagekit but rather aptitude. :-)
As a general hint: read the package descriptions, they tend to be quite 
helpful.

  --Reinhold