Ubuntu-Studio-users Digest, Vol 42, Issue 18

[Luke Yelavich]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 08:58:39PM EDT, Tim Cook wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 18:47 -0500, Brian David wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > You are correct that Synaptic will remove the meta package, but this
> > will NOT remove any of the actual individual pieces of software.
> >  It'll just remove the metapackage itself, which is not software so
> > much as a list of software.
> > -- 
> 
> Ahhh, okay.  I was concerned it would remove everything listed in the
> meta-package.  Thanks for the info.

It is possible for things to be adjusted such that if you remove a package, the audio metapackage remains installed. This is done by moving all the packages the ubuntustudio-audio metapackage pulls in from being direct dependencies, to recommends. The packages still get installed, due to recommends being installed by default.

Luke