evolution

[Matthew Kuiken]

Miravlix wrote:
> søn, 06 08 2006 kl. 18:55 -0700, skrev Matthew Kuiken:
>
>   
>> There is only one case where the removal of ubuntu-desktop becomes an 
>> issue. When you want to upgrade from Dapper to Edgy, the upgrade tools 
>> will have been written, tested, and work better if ubuntu-desktop is 
>> installed. Otherwise, the package is completely unnecessary after 
>> initial installation.
>>     
>
>
> I think your overlooking the dependency system in several apt programs,
> if you remove ubuntu-desktop and have the dependency clean/supporting
> apt applications, it will remove all the applications ubuntu-desktop
> triggered to be installed.
>
> Orphan, Aptitude and several others support Auto Dependencies.
>   

I don't know about Orphan, but Aptitude requires that the package was 
installed by Aptitude to also remove its dependencies.  Since 
ubuntu-desktop is installed by the installer, there shouldn't be a 
problem here.  As for gtkorphan, and deborphan, these don't uninstall 
unless you tell it to.  They just list all the installed packages that 
are not dependencies of other installed packages.  I would not uninstall 
ubuntu-desktop using these programs, but once it is uninstalled, the 
only effect on them should be a much larger number of orphaned packages.

-Matt