Comment 5 for bug 49524

I am definitely not an advanced user.
We installed feisty on a 3 gb partition and had very little space left.
I had successfully removed many apps from breezy so thought feisty might work the same.
We tried removing various apps and they all said they would remove ubuntu desktop and other
frightening things.
Finally we removed a few things assuming that it wouldnt remove critical dependencies. The box would only reboot in safe mode (as root) and the wifi card wouldnt work so no access to any repostories except thru the live CD. When I tried reinstalling thru the live CD, it either said the package wasnt available or was already installed. Finally donwloaded a cd image for dapper and installed that. only 780 mb free but that is more than feisty left. Again all the packages say they will also remove ubuntu-desktop.

Is it possible to remove apps without breaking the desktop? Even removing a font such as ttf-arphic-ukai will remove ubuntu-desktop. We would like to remove most of these but with dapper
and feisty they seem to be tied to ubuntu-desktop.
aspell
bicyclerepair
blt
busybox
cdrecord
contact lookup
diveintopython
eog
evolution
fd utils
foomatic
gaim
gcalctool
gettext
gnome-games
gnomemeeting
groff-base
gthumb
gtk2 themes
gucharmap
j2re1.4
irrsi-text
metacity
rhythmbox
rss-glx
samba-common
smbclient
ttf-arphic
ttf-baekmuk
other foreign fonts
x-fonts