Customizing some defaults

[aleck]

I have installed Kubuntu-12.04.1-64bit-LTS.

During initial customizing I have changed some default applications:
1) Dolphin -> Konqueror (which I had to install additionally)
2) rekonq -> Firefox
3) KMail -> Thunderbird
Besides I have installed Synaptic to use as a package manager.

Q: May I now purge painlessly Dolphin, rekonq, KMail, Kontact, KAddressBook, and Muon (or some of them) with their particular dependencies taking in account their deep integration in the system and bearing in mind possible future upgrade of one?

[dmeyer]

I have installed Kubuntu-12.04.1-64bit-LTS.

During initial customizing I have changed some default applications:
1) Dolphin -> Konqueror (which I had to install additionally)
2) rekonq -> Firefox
3) KMail -> Thunderbird
Besides I have installed Synaptic to use as a package manager.

Q: May I now purge painlessly Dolphin, rekonq, KMail, Kontact, KAddressBook, and Muon (or some of them) with their particular dependencies taking in account their deep integration in the system and bearing in mind possible future upgrade of one?

No you can't. Just leave them. They won't bother you. Just remove them from the menu.

[dmeyer]

Read this:

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthr...sed-components

[Snowhog]

Yes. A simulated purge of these packages:

sudo apt-get purge --simulate dolphin rekonq kmail kontact kaddressbook muon

Reports:

NOTE: This is only a simulation!
      apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
      Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
      so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  update-manager-kde muon-updater muon-notifier
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  dolphin* kaddressbook* kmail* kontact* kubuntu-desktop* muon* rekonq*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Purg kubuntu-desktop [1.254]
Purg dolphin [4:4.10.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.2~ppa1]
Purg kaddressbook [4:4.10.0a-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.2~ppa1]
Purg kmail [4:4.10.0a-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.2~ppa1]
Purg kontact [4:4.10.0a-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.2~ppa1]
Purg muon [1.3.1-0ubuntu2]
Purg rekonq [2.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu12.04.1~ppa1]

kubuntu-desktop:

Description-en: Kubuntu Plasma Desktop/Netbook system This package depends on all of the packages in the Kubuntu desktop system.
 Installing this package will include the default Kubuntu Plasma Desktop or
 Netbook installation.
 .
 It is safe to remove this package if some of the desktop system packages are
 not desired.

update-manager-kde:

Description-en: Support modules for Muon Notifier and Apper Support modules for Muon Notifier and Apper to check for new distro releases
 and download the dist-upgrade tool.

[aleck]

To: dmeyer
Thank you very much for the relevant link.

[aleck]

To: Snowhog
Thank you very much for your all-inclusive response.
Just to clear up: does the code you provided mean that the packages update-manager-kde, muon-updater and muon-notifier will continue their work by themselves or will not (and then may be purged too)?

[Snowhog]

They will be remove/purged. You said you were wanting/going to install the Synaptic Package Manager, which has it's own notifier, so you will be fine.

[aleck]

To: Snowhog
Thank you very much for your reply.

[aleck]

To: Snowhog
Unfortunately purging or removing dolphin affects badly on functionality of konqueror though there are no apparent dependences between them. Namely konqueror loses 3 items in Menu->View->Mode view (upper item of the submenu; as I use localized version of the system the names of interface items may be only descriptive): Icons, Table, Compact; Terminal emulator and FSView are left. Of course this is unacceptable for use of konqueror as a file manager. I heard the opinion on one forum this is because of this piece of functionality of konqueror is realized via dolphin. :-(

[Snowhog]

Well, (re)install dolphin (if you did remove/purge it). You don't have to use Dolphin, and can even delete it from the K Menu if you want.

Everything is a compromise. We almost never get to have exactly what we want.

[aleck]

I have already done exactly you advised and agree with your last phrase. ;-)