phenest, the "residual config" was planned for jaunty, but didn't make it, so it'll happen for karmic instead. It is a good idea, although not entirely risk-less.
CJ already separates between 'local or obsolete' and 'autoremovable'. Jan, changing gdebi to whitelist packages would be a nice first step. It's not a complete solution, though, since not everyone uses gdebi. But it would be a step. -- System cleaner removes explicitly installed third-party packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285746 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs