kde removing gnome (and vice versa)

[Dana Olson]

On 2/27/06, Travis Watkins <alleykat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/27/06, Dana Olson <dana at ubuntustudio.com> wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> But then ubuntu-desktop would depend on remove-kde which would
> conflict with, say, k3b or amarok  which I (and others) want even
> though we use GNOME. The only way to get them would be to remove the
> remove-kde and ubuntu-desktop packages, which is an unsupported
> configuration and not good for dist-upgrades.
>
> --
> Travis Watkins
> http://www.realistanew.com


I didn't say that the -desktop metafiles had to depend on the remove
metafiles. That would be silly, as some people want BOTH GNOME and KDE
installed. But the remove metafiles would be there for people to use
to remove either/or, if they so chose. Does this not make sense?

Dana