online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Conrad Knauer]

Indeed.

Don't use Evolution and want to get rid of it?
Want to install Xscreensaver and uninstall gnome-screensaver?
Foomatic causing printing problems and need to uninstall it until a patch is
released?

There are all sorts of potential cases where ubuntu-desktop can get removed
if you're not paying close attention (in fact, these have all happened to me
:)

CK

On 6/12/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 17:55 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
>
> > On ma, 2006-06-12 at 11:46 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > How in the heck is that user error and not a bug?
> >
> > ubuntu-desktop doesn't 'just get removed'...
>
> Oh yes it does!!  It actually happens very very often.  I thought I'd
> remove a whole bunch of fonts in scripts I don't know how to read, but
> you can't do that without 'ubuntu-desktop' getting removed as well.  So
> that means
>
> 1. Putting up with 20 or so ae_Godknowswhat.ttf hogging your fonts list
> 2. Manually hunting down the font files and doing fcache -something in a
> terminal
> 3. Say 'byebye ubuntu-desktop' meta package.
>
> It also happens even just upgrading or changing something. Basically you
> have to check the 'packages to be removed' manually every time you
> install or upgrade anything, or risk shedding stuff that can complicate
> upgrades later.
>
> Cheers,
> Chanchao
>
>
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