online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Constantine Evans]

Lee Revell wrote:
> It's not installed on my desktop system either but it's perfectly usable
> without it.  (it would install 531MB of stuff that I don't need)

It is a symptom of a larger issue. Removing ubuntu-desktop (or any 
*-desktop) breaks upgrades, so there is no way to remove unneeded 
packages. This shouldn't be the case, but fixing the problem would be 
rather difficult.

Of course, the practice of adding packages to ubuntu-desktop which >90% 
of users don't want only exacerbates the issue. Perhaps it is time to 
come up with a better way of doing this?

Constantine