how do I uninstall Thunderbird

[Antony Gelberg]

thephotoman wrote:
> Let it remove xubuntu-desktop.  You don't actually need xubuntu-desktop
> after installing Xubuntu.  The xubuntu-desktop "package" simply is a
> listing of the packages in a stock Xubuntu install.  All of the other
> packages upon which it depends (other than Thunderbird) will remain
> untouched, and will still be updated.

This advice may break dist-upgrades between releases.  I believe the
*buntu-desktop package should be installed as a prerequisite to upgrading.