It is perfectly safe for expert users to remove this package, with the understanding that they are taking responsibility for their own package selections, and won't receive any automatic help with this.
I think the wording suggested in the original report is rather severe, but I would appreciate a pointer to the technical analysis of the upgrade experience which went wrong because of this issue. -- Removal of ubuntu-desktop needs a stronger warning https://launchpad.net/bugs/49524 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
