Aptitude wants to remove "ubuntu-desktop"

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/15/06, Matthew R. Dempsky <mrd at alkemio.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:00:20PM +0530, Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote:
> > I guess "ubuntu-desktop" is an improtant package.
>
> It's not really important---it's just a convenience package to depend on
> all of the standard components of an ``Ubuntu desktop.''
>
> Uninstalling it should not damage your system.

the important point to remember is that if you remove it and you ever
upgrade your system to a newer version of Ubuntu  (Breezy to Dapper
for example),  you should reinstall it before the upgrade.  If you
don't, things will most probably break on you since an upgrade between
Ubuntu versions always assume that this metapackage exist and is
installed on your system.


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Daniel Robitaille