Chris, Thanks for your reply. I understand the realistic restrictions that a developer faces when packaging applications. It really doesn't bother me that I'm incapable of removing one out of all of them while leaving the rest alone. I always simply remove all of them anyway. I was pointing out a more fundamental problem (from my perspective), where because of these realistic restrictions imposed by our technological limitations, I end up with a situation where my computer tells me that if I remove one program, I need to remove this huge (Comparatively) list of programs. 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. Is there just no way for a package maintaner to not have extra work piled on their already hefty load while at the same time we allow a user of Ubuntu to remove most traces of a program in a package with multiple programs without having to also remove the rest of them? Is it worth doing even if its possible? I think I'm in a somewhat unique position of having extreme distaste whenever my system tells me I can't do something in a counter intuitive way. It telling me it can't make my chair float on an anti-gravity sled is fine... it telling me that if I don't want one program of a package, I'm not allowed to have any of them in the package... thats not so great. -Mike <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Chris Coulson <<a href="mailto:chrisccoulson@googlemail.com">chrisccoulson@googlemail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/23 Mike Jones <<a href="mailto:eternalorb@gmail.com" target="_blank">eternalorb@gmail.com</a>><div class="im"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Right. My intention was to say "Why in the world do I have this restriction on what I can and cannot have on my system?" Overall it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, but in this specific case, it bothers me that I'm incapable of completely removing freecell while leaving the other gnome-desktop default games as they are. -Mike</blockquote></div></div> Mike, The package manager only allows you to manage individulal packages. The Freecell source code is shipped in the same tarball as the other default Gnome games, and they are all subsequently packaged in to one binary deb package. This is why you can't remove individual games from your system. Whilst it may be technically possible to split the games in to multiple binary deb packages (allowing you to remove individual games), this would significantly increase the effort required for a developer to maintain this package, all for minimum to zero gain. Regards Chris </blockquote></div>