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[David Cahill]

Further to my email below, it seems that a number of fonts including  
ttf-bitstream-vera are a part of ubuntu-desktop but not xubuntu-desktop.

David Cahill wrote:

> I've installed xubuntu-desktop and removed ubuntu-desktop, and I'm 
> pruning my system down with deborphan -a.
>
> I just wanted to query a few packages that are a part of 
> ubuntu-desktop but not currently in xubuntu.
>
> bc - I thought this should be in base, actually
> ubuntu-sounds - its still an ubuntu, afterall
> ubuntu-artwork - ditto
> acpi - don't know if this does anything...
> doc-base - ? don't know if this is useful. Sounds important.
> doc - debian - ? ditto
> wvdial - one of the target audiences would be dialup users wouldn't it?
> anacron - not everyone has an uptime of 26.4 million years. Most of us 
> turn off their computers at night.
>
> I've got no strong personal feeling about any of these (except perhaps 
> anacron :) ), I just thought I'd bring them up.
>