Trying to give the history correctly; this is the second time I've had wierd
dependency cascades. Yesterday I saw "217 updates available" ( well about ).
Did the updates piecemeal, using synaptic, picked a few central ones, update
reboot, repeat, then ran the lot.
Things acted sane, no "
Thank you for taking the time to file this report and help improving
Ubuntu.
The issue about meta-packages being uninstalled if you uninstall some
package that they depend on has been solved in Ubuntu Intrepid, to be
released at the end of this month. Backporting of this change into Hardy
and othe
ubuntu-desktop is a meta-package used to install/upgrade all the
application of ubuntu in one go.
You can safely remove it.
See http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/base/ubuntu-desktop
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apt tools remove upline dependencies
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92546
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Binary package hint: apt
Just tried to remove gnome-pilot. Apt-get, aptitude, dpkg and synaptic
all tell me that I will also be removing gnome-pilot conduits _and_
ubuntu-desktop.
This is but one of many examples where the apt tools threaten to remove
pac
