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Don't worry...I unistalled it too because I don't see the point in having gizmo, skype, and rhapsody installers on my device.

In many cases you're still going to be fine without it. It's job is just to help make sure you have the most up to date software. The programs you have installed will most likely update (if) when any updates for them are available. The only time this tends to become a problem is if a new package becomes part of the standard packages that are installed by default on your system. In this case, you would have to go manually install that package. Metapackages only insure that you have installed all of a set of packages. Basically, Nokia if you don't care about having the Nokia pre-determined set of propriotary packages on your system you can get rid of it. The programs you tend to use ought to be just fine. Just run apt-get update and then apt-get dist-upgrade every once in a while to make sure and you'll be fine.