[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2006-07-02 at 15:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> It's too easy now to inadvertently remove ubuntu-desktop because the
> dependencies are insane. 

And it's no problem to remove ubuntu-desktop, just make sure you
reinstall it before dist-upgrading, because otherwise important packages
might not get installed.

I agree with you that ubuntu-desktop is a kludge and better methods are
needed. I don't think the Ubuntu devs haven't notice too, but I'd guess
it's not a trivial problem.