Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: software-center
Have you ever started to remove an app, glanced through the to-be-
removed list, and... What is gnome-panel doing in there‽
It's happened to me multiple times. Fortunately, I always take time to
double-check what's going to be removed and hit cancel if I see
something strange. It also helps that I know what shouldn't be in that
list.
But what if you're like a friend of mine, who I'll call Harley. Harley is not a
power user. He spends most of his time browsing the web and using OpenOffice --
Have I discovered the fabled Average User‽
So when one morning he went to remove Evolution, he didn't notice what else was
being removed being removed: indicator-me, gnome-session, gnome-applets,
gnome-panel, ubuntuone-client-gnome. When he rebooted, he was greeted by a
bland xterm session.
So he got the machine to me, and I reinstalled ubuntu-desktop. Harley computed
happily ever after... I hope.
I realize that there are underlying problems causing this package
management meltdown, and if anyone can help me get to the bottom of
that, I'd greatly appreciate it.
But I think there's something simple we can do to protect the Average User from
accidentally removing something important.
My suggestion: when a package on a list of key software (gnome-session,
nautilus, etc.) is marked to be removed, the user should be warned that he may
be about to remove something important. Obviously, this will be ineffective if
the user sees this warning any time he removes _anything_, so the list should
be quite minimal.
Note: Bug #561018 is similar, but it concerns packages with "essential"
priority. I'm worried about important "optional" packages.
** Affects: software-center (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Software Center does not warn a user when something important is marked for
removal
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/653293
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