Aptitude wants to remove "ubuntu-desktop"

[John Vivirito]

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>>> > > 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.
>> >
>> > That's a very weak assumption.  The package system is supposed to
prevent
>> > the need for this sort of thing.  I don't want half of what's in the
>> > *-desktop packages, and I'm going to really resent it if anything else
>> > breaks when I next upgrade to a new version (fwiw, I don't think
_anything_
>> > broke when I upgraded from breezy to dapper - and I'd long since removed
>> > kubuntu-desktop).
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> If you look at these wiki pages, you will see that install
> ubuntu-dekstop is always one of the first you are suppose to do before
> an upgrade:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyUpgradeNotes
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HoaryUpgradeNotes
>
> I'm sure when a DapperUpgradeNotes page is created, installing
> ubuntu-desktop (or kubuntu-desktop) will be on it as well as one thing
> to do before the dist-upgrade.    It's up to you to decide to follow
> that advice or not.
>
>
> --
> Daniel Robitaille

When Dapper is released it will have an upgrade tool to upgrade from
breezy to dapper. its being tested atm and can be found at
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-January/014700.html.
Its safer if going with dist-upgrade from one realese to another to
have the -desktop package of your DE installed. i havent figured or
heard why yet but most people that dont install it before upgrading
has failed to upgrade.

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