kde removing gnome (and vice versa)

[Travis Watkins]

On 2/27/06, Frank Siegert <hugelmopf at web.de> wrote:
> 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.

kubuntu-desktop conflicting with ubuntu-desktop would not make GNOME
uninstall when you install KDE. It would simply remove the metapackage
and nothing else.

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