2009/7/15 Paul Sutton <zl...@zleap.net>: > 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'. > 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. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
