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iKs wrote:
> kubuntu-desktop is a meta-package anyway so removing it wont affect your
> system at all.
>
> But its still a problem that apt-get doesnt know how to handle
> dependencies correctly. As a temporary solution, I would tell you to use
> aptitude, which works perfectly on my system (ubuntu-desktop) and which
> is supposed to be the new generation apt tool :)
That's what I thought too - and it was true the first few times. Like, it'd say its removing kubuntu desktop but it'd be all fine. So then I removed kaffiene and keb too, and each time it listed more and more packages as being removed. I guess once kubuntu-desktop has been removed, it believes that all the packages inside kubuntu-desktop are no longer necessary. So each time if I remove 2 or 3 things like kaffiene and keb it will uninstall the entirety of KDE.
This is on the latest feisty btw. And I tested it via the 'add or remove programs' graphical UI and it had the same result. In other words I can screw up this system (recoverably, if you're not a newbie user, but I dont like to make that assumption) just by removing things like keb and amarok via the 'add or remove programs' gui.