Brile TTY?

[Eamonn Sullivan]

On 8/31/06, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have noticed the brltty service running on my Ubunu 6.06.1. When I tried
> to remove it, one of the dependencies was ubuntu-desktop.
>
> As far as I know, ubuntu-desktop is an essential part of the system....
>
> While we're at it, there are a bunch of apps (especially KDE card games)
> that I would like to get rid of and it won't let me for the same reason....
>
> a) I am curious to know why, and b) Any way to remove them?
>

Ubuntu-desktop is just a "meta-package" -- a list of other packages.
It's perfectly safe to remove it. You may want to reinstall it,
however, when upgrading to the next major release of ubuntu, since the
package is used to keep track of all the "default" applications on a
standard install.

-Eamonn