kde removing gnome (and vice versa)

Frank Siegert hugelmopf at web.de
Mon Feb 27 11:44:31 GMT 2006


,---- Karl Goetz wrote:
| While we have packages for ubuntu-desktop and kubuntu-desktop, these
| install the 2 desktops side by side. How feasible would it be to have a
| package that installs kde and removes gnome, or installs gnome and
| removes kde?
`----

Judging from giving support on IRC this seems like a good idea. At least in 
the #kubuntu channel, we get questions like this. Right now one common answer 
is: remove one of the core libraries (like libqt3-mt for KDE) and every 
dependency that is broken by this. But that is probably not exactly the most 
elegant way to go. A conflicting metapackage seems like a good answer.

No high priority though...

Frank



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