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[Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 03/05/2011 08:56 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:

> On 03/05/2011 01:19 AM, Richard Foulkes wrote:

>> The system still works, but this 'feels' wrong - i honestly don't
>> know whether the removal of the package would affect a distro 
>> upgrade.

> It should make no difference at all.  It is just a meta-package.  It
> has no content.

There is one difference, although it may well not matter to you.

If you upgrade to a newer version of Lubuntu and the lubuntu-desktop
package has changed (added to) the set of packages it points to, then
the upgrade will not "pull in" any such added packages unless you have
lubuntu-desktop present.

Since it appears that you are more interested in removing things than
adding them, this probably will not matter to you, but I thought I
should correct myself and mention it, just in case it does matter!

There is some previous discussion of this issue at


http://www.mail-archive.com/lubuntu-desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg02961.html

Jonathan

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