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I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with Gnome 3. There are some applications that I don't use or need, for example Totem. When I click remove in the Software Center (or in Synaptic), it says "gnome-core" and/or "The gnome desktop environment - essential components" will be removed as well.

I removed these applications about a month ago by ignoring the prompts and once I restarted, Ubuntu would not load and would simply sit there at the loading screen. I'm not sure if removing gnome-core caused this issue, but I really want to remove some of these applications.

What is gnome-core and how do I know what essential components are going to be removed? Should I go forth with removing them anyways?

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It is not clear whether you've already saw problem after you removed those gnome-core components, or you are asking what could be happened if you do so. – pstar Jan 21 at 22:46
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[..]I removed these applications about a month ago by ignoring the prompts and once I restarted, Ubuntu would not load and would simply sit there at the loading screen.[..]. There you go there's your answer. – Uri Herrera Jan 22 at 0:36
there are some packages commonly used by both vital and normal applications. Make sure you removal of a package does not cause a chain of other packages to be removed. Always be aware of what you're doing. – vanlong441 Jan 23 at 1:52
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i was just testing this to check this out, by un-intalling totem! there should be no problem todo so!

suggestion do a re-install of gnome-common and gnome-session using synaptic by preference (as i don't like the software center)

and reboot the sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade. then open synaptic and remove totem. if you want to remove the games i just remove them one by one or tomboy etc. hope this helps

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