-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/7/15 Paul Sutton <[email protected]>: >> I use firefox and thunderbird, i know evolution does not take up much >> space, but by removing it I can save a few hundred kilobytes, then why >> not, removing un used packages keeps systems un cluttered. >> > > Depends on your definition of 'clutter'.
programs that I will never use, i guess. > >> what do you mean by meta package anyway ? >> > > A meta package is one that doesn't actually contain any apps/libs > itself, but merely refers to other packages (and meta packages) which > do. The best examples of this are "ubuntu-desktop" and > "kubuntu-desktop". These are meta-packages which pull in all the > necessary stuff for the Ubuntu & Kubuntu (respectively) desktops. > > If you remove something which requires you remove one of those > -desktop meta-package then you need to be aware this will compromise > your system updates/upgrades. It's entirely possible that you will not > be able to upgrade to the next release as ubuntu-desktop is missing > the upgrade process won't pull in all necessary dependencies for the > next version. > > Cheers, > Al. > Ok thanks, seems rather odd that removing something like evolution can cause so many issues. Oh well, i guess i will have to keep evolution installed. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpd9AwACgkQaggq1k2FJq1liQCdGgaEJsPIEIRh22oZoMrnVxBA 94QAoIiV9LMjOPfgiUgTVSmGP10DnF7m =5ccr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
