Restore Dapper after Edgy

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 14:15:26 UTC 2006


On Saturday 28 October 2006 21:11, NoOp wrote:
> So my question then would be; why is openoffice an integral part to the
> ubuntu desktop?  For instance, if you install the ubuntu desktop package
> in Synaptics it will show that it is installing the above openoffice.org
> files. Again, this seems to be the IE to Microsoft situation.

Thought I'd comment on just this section - ubuntu-desktop is a
meta-package.  If you install ubuntu-desktop you get Open Office.
That does not however mean that ubuntu requires Open Office, just that
the 'official original setup' contained open office.   Removing that
package removes no software.

Brian

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