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[Phillip Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

can you confirm that doing so will not, as has been reported as a bug cause
any issues with updates / upgrading?

Thabks,

Phill.

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Andrew Woodhead <
andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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