s. keeling writes: > And the downside is, you might say: > apt-get remove $SOME_GNOME_PROGRAM > and it will also remove Gnome (if you let it); Ditto KDE. Gnome and KDE are metapackage which have no contents. They exist only to pull in all the real packages they depend on. Once that is done they serve no purpose and can be removed with impunity. -- John Hasler