> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:19:20 -0800
> From: dan@homestead-products.com
> To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net
> Subject: Re: [trinity-users] removing games and other cruff.
>
> On 12/26/2014 11:32 PM, Felmon Davis wrote:
> > I thought I'd try purging them the so-called easy way using kpackage but
> > when I get set to remove kdegames-trinity, it _looks_ like tde-trinity will
> > go along it. I know this has to do with 'meta-packages' but I don't
> > understand the implications.
>
> What I do is, first make sure there are no autoremovable packages. Then
> remove the metapackage. Then look at the packages that are now
> autoremovable, and mark anything you want to keep as manually installed.
> Then autoremove the rest.
>
Hi,

If you want to use Synaptic, it will tell you which package would be removed if you proceed to  remove the metapackage. If it makes sense for you, click on okay and if it wants to remove tons of packages, then something went wrong in packaging...

Hope it helps!
-Alexandre