Re: switching window managers and session managers - update-alternatives ?

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Jerry_Bash@spectral-sys.com wrote:

>  This brings up another question: when I do apt-get -s --purge remove 
> xdm", it tells me it's going also to remove x-window-system (in 
> addition to xdm).   x-window-system is a meta package, so will it just 
> remove that meta package and leave the individual packages alone (so x 
> still functions), or will I need to reinstall the x-window-system 
> again, (or the individual packages) individually after that?


When you remove a meta package, it only removes the meta packages, not 
the packages on which the meta package depend.

So you're save to remove x-window-system; the rest of your system will 
be retained.

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Kent