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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Jaeic says, removing metapackages is harmless, they are hollow and empty
and o not remove the packages they install so are fine to remove, this is
the same with any metapackage


On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I guess this is more a question for Juliene, but one of things that has
> been raised a few times on IRC is why lubuntu *insists *on having all the
> packages that it does, for example you cannot remove Mplayer to free room up
> and put an alternative on, nor xfburn if you wish brasserro. Whilst the list
> of default packages is commendable, it does seem somewhat odd that none of
> them may be removed without it taking out the whole of lubuntu.
>
> The argument of 'more difficult to support' does not really stand, people
> want to make their computer their own, the whole idea of *buntu is choice,
> we can easily say that we cannot support xyz, but forcing people to have
> applications on that they do not want seems odd.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
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