DEB program package tpb requires de-installation of ubuntu-desktop

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 22:52:49 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Detlef Lechner <Detlef.Lechner at gmx.net> wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 26.08.2008, 11:54 -0300 schrieb Derek Broughton:
>> ubuntu-desktop is just a metapackage, with hotkey-setup as one of its
>> dependencies.  Nobody _needs_ to have ubuntu-desktop.
>
> Synaptic states the opposite: "This package depends on all of the
> packages in the Ubuntu desktop system. It is also used to help ensure
> proper upgrades, so it is recommended that it not be removed."
>
> How do you arrive at your conclusion: "Nobody needs to have
> ubuntu-desktop?

Think of ubuntu-desktop as a recipe.  If you remove one ingredient,
it's not ubuntu-desktop anymore.  But all you've done is removed
hotkey-setup.  It won't remove anything else.  That's what Derek means
by 'metapackage'

Perhaps this discussion will be clearer
http://www.nabble.com/Removing-what-a-meta-package-provided-td17106.html

HTH,

Brian




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