Unusual dependencies on ubuntu-desktop

Wed Jun 29 10:03:29 UTC 2005

On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:22:03 +0530
Sandip Bhattacharya <sandip at lug-delhi.org> wrote:

SB> Why does half the stuff on ubuntu depend on ubuntu-desktop???
SB> 
SB> I saw the tutorial diveintopython  being installed. I asked synaptic
SB> to remove it, and it mentioned that to remove it ubuntu desktop has
SB> to be remove too! Why in the world????
SB> 
SB> - Sandip

ubuntu-desktop is a dummy package designed to facilitate installing a
"standard" desktop environment. 

James

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