On my Ubuntu 11.10 install, I want to use gpicview instead of eog. Therefore, I'd like to remove eog. Whenever I do sudo apt-get remove eog though, I'm notified that doing this will also remove ubuntu-desktop. But I want to keep using Unity 2D.
How can I remove eog while keeping the Unity-2D session?
I believe ubuntu-desktop is a "metapackage" aka a package of packages. MetaPackages.
Thus when you un-install a package in that metapackage it un-installs the metapackage, but not the other packages in the metapackage, so removing eog and letting it un-install ubuntu-desktop should not harm Unity 2D, they made the ubuntu-desktop metapackage for ease of installing many programs and upgrading them all in one go. what-are-the-downsides-of-removing-ubuntu-desktop-metapackage
Edit: Is it safe to remove ubuntu-desktop package? Seems distributions will still upgrade, because it forces install of desktop metapackage, and will still upgrade.
