kde removing gnome (and vice versa)

[Dana Olson]

On 2/27/06, Travis Watkins <alleykat at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Travis Watkins
> http://www.realistanew.com


Right, but couldn't you make a metapackage like remove-gnome or
remove-kde, and those metapackages would conflict with all
gnome-stuffs and kde-stuffs, respectively?

Dana