<quote who="jam"> > I DO want the ubuntu-desktop, but I won't use and don't want most of the > apps including the ones desktop depends on.
The ubuntu-desktop package is a meta-package. There's nothing in it. The only reason it exists is to provide Depends and Recommends metadata. You can remove the ubuntu-desktop package without breaking anything. > At this point even openoffice is depended on by the desktop so I can't > even ditch that You absolutely can. In fact, the OpenOffice.org packages are all Recommends rather than Depends, so you can actually remove it without removing the meta package (ubuntu-desktop). Here's how to start: apt-cache show ubuntu-desktop Start removing crap you don't want that is listed on the Recommends line. If you want to remove some of the stuff on the Depends line, that's fine, but that will result in the ubuntu-desktop meta package being removed, which is okay until you want to upgrade and get all the cool new things it helpfully depends on. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australia http://lca2008.linux.org.au/ "When you're running, you want to run as far as you can, and you can't run further than Australia." - Jacek Koman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
