Re: How to get rid of KVim

[David Goodenough <david.goodenough@btconnect.com>]

On Friday 25 June 2004 15:43, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Friday 25 June 2004 15:32, Silvan wrote:
> > ->apt-get remove kvim
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following packages will be REMOVED:
> >   kde kdeaddons kvim vimpart
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B of archives.
> > ...
>
> This is a complete misnomer...
>
> Removing 'kvim' will NOT remove the entirety of the K Desktop Environment.
> It will remove the 10k Debian 'metapackage' called 'kde' as well as the one
> called 'kdeaddons'.
>
> It does this because kvim is part of the kdeaddons metapackage, and
> kdeaddons is part of the kde metapackage.
>
> Rest assured your KDE installation is safe.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin.
Yes, BUT, it will interfere with future upgrades that add new components
(this time that we might want) to KDE.  If you do not have the metapackage
they will not get included automatically.

David