Removing some packages, not ubuntu-standard

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 20:05 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> So I don't really want to uninstall it. But I do want to
> uninstall the PPP packages. (They don't take up much space
> at all; it's just the principle of the thing.) Any way to do
> that?

If ist just a matter a principle, I'd say leave it alone. What does it
buy you? If you go hunting for stuff that doesn't hurt to be installed,
but is not strictly needed by everyone, you won't do much else with your
PC over the lifetime of Dapper ;)

That said, it's fine to remove ubuntu-standard, but when upgrading to
the next release, you probably want to have it installed, at least if
you don't use Update Manager to upgrade, but instead want to edit
sources.list and run aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade manually.
(The same goes for *ubuntu-desktop)

The details will be in the upgrade instructions that will be available
when the next release is out.