package dependencies

[Ed Cogburn]

Arjan Geven wrote:

> However, it's safe to remove the ubuntu-desktop, no bad things will
> happen. It's a dummy package that doesn't do anything by itself.


.. except depend on other packages, which is what these meta-packages do. 
So if you remove the meta package, the packages it depends on may get
removed too, if nothing else depends on them.  To prevent that, you need to
manually select the other packages to make sure they stay when you remove
ubuntu-desktop.