As Jaeic says, removing metapackages is harmless, they are hollow and empty and o not remove the packages they install so are fine to remove, this is the same with any metapackage
On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Phillip Whiteside <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I guess this is more a question for Juliene, but one of things that has > been raised a few times on IRC is why lubuntu *insists *on having all the > packages that it does, for example you cannot remove Mplayer to free room up > and put an alternative on, nor xfburn if you wish brasserro. Whilst the list > of default packages is commendable, it does seem somewhat odd that none of > them may be removed without it taking out the whole of lubuntu. > > The argument of 'more difficult to support' does not really stand, people > want to make their computer their own, the whole idea of *buntu is choice, > we can easily say that we cannot support xyz, but forcing people to have > applications on that they do not want seems odd. > > Regards, > > Phill. > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > >
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