I'm trying to remove some bloatware and when i tried to purge cheese-common bunch of things that I think essential to ubuntu will be removed.
I'm using 14.04LTS
Trying to follow this guide on what to remove Link
2 Answers
sudo apt-get remove cheese
This will remove just the cheese package itself. I.e it does not remove any other packages unless you opt to.
Both libcheese7 and libcheese-gtk23 depend on cheese-common, and both unity-control-center and gnome-control-center (among other things) depend on those two libraries. I would say the control center(s) are required, so you were right in bringing this question up.
In short, you can't remove cheese-common in Ubuntu 14.04 without effectively breaking your system.
