Comment 13 for bug 122039

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Markus Majer (mpathy) wrote : Re: [Gutsy] unnecessary packages in ubuntu-desktop dependencies?

+1 to the answer of "Prosthetic Head" - I couldnt answer better.

@FrankyT: I personally did know that if the ubuntu-desktop is removed, all the other packages attached to it won't be removed also. First, because I am working with Debian and Ubuntu together almost 10 years know, I believe - and I think also, that a clever newbie will also don't think that, because it just would make no sense! That is not the point. (But it could be solved very easily, I could solve it, with my average packaging knowledge..)

It is just the point, the user above pointed out!

It was not only for fun, that I added the following link like above:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2006-June/007465.html

Read it, and also the link included in there, so you find out, what the real problem is, and what problems a user might get, without knowing that it has its origin in removing a package that removes ubuntu-desktop which ends in a not properly upgraded system.