[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Peter Whittaker]

On Sun, 2006-02-07 at 21:33 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: 
> And it's no problem to remove ubuntu-desktop, just make sure you
> reinstall it before dist-upgrading, because otherwise important packages
> might not get installed.

It's not a problem, but if you do it, make sure you undo it, before you
do anything important.

How is that not a problem? To me, the uninstallability of ubuntu-desktop
seems a huge usability problem. A bug, in other words.

That said, there are pragmatic reasons for uninstalling it and other
things: As others have noted, a huge amount of potentially unnecessary
stuff is installed by Ubuntu (and my disk isn't that large - by a bigger
disk is not an option for the many of the human beings we are supposedly
trying to serve).

But until someone takes radical pruning shears to the organization of
the distro, being able to remove bits whose absence will later bite you
in a tender part is, IMHO, a huge usability bug.

pww

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