Removing single program from multi program packages

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi at gmail.com
Mon Mar 23 14:14:30 UTC 2009


On Monday 23 March 2009 9:37:08 am Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 08:53 -0400, Mike Jones wrote:
> >     If Ubuntu said "Ok Boss" and pretended to remove one specific
> > program from a package for me, through the single "add or remove
> > programs to your system" interface of add/remove, that would be...
> > better, but not really the best solution due to the inherent
> > dishonesty. 
> 
> I think this is not better, at all.  As others have mentioned if you
> want items to be removed from your menus then you can do that already
> with the menu editor.  Having your computer lie to you is, IMO, much
> more unpleasant than having it truthfully tell you "I can't do that for
> you".

*snicker*
Can we prepend "I'm sorry, Dave" to that string?

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo
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