Comment 6 for bug 49524

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 49524] Re: Removal of ubuntu-desktop needs a stronger warning

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:51:31PM -0000, drgoplayer wrote:
> Is it possible to remove apps without breaking the desktop? Even removing a font such as ttf-arphic-ukai will remove ubuntu-desktop. We would like to remove most of these but with dapper
> and feisty they seem to be tied to ubuntu-desktop.

ubuntu-desktop was already changed in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy, October 2006) so
that many of the default packages, icnluding the one you mention above, can
be removed without disturbing the metapackage.

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 - mdz