why update programs that I do not use?

[John R. Sowden]

On 06/24/2014 01:22 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 24 June 2014 09:18, John R. Sowden <jsowden at americansentry.net> wrote:
>> Why does ubuntu update programs that I do not use (kde).  I left suse about
>> 10 years ago because I felt kde was going down the same road as windows
>> (fat, slow and excessive).  Now I must endure the upgrades of kde in
>> xubuntu/xfce.
>
> It has to upgrade anything that is installed.  Somehow you must have
> installed some kde stuff at some point.  It may be you can uninstall
> the packages you do not need.  If you use sudo apt-get remove
> <package> then it will warn you if that implies removing lots of other
> stuff before going ahead.
>
> Colin
>
I brought up synaptic pkg mgr and founf fontd of foreign languages and 
some kinda kde stuff.  unfortunately gambas3 seems to use kde things so 
I guess if I can learn gambas, I must keep kde

thanks,
john