ma, 2008-11-03 kello 10:30 +0000, Matthew East kirjoitti: > If there is genuinely no way of keeping the system clean without some > user intervention, then certainly there is a use for such a program.
There is really no way of knowing for certain that a given package is or is not required by the user, in the general case. In some cases a heuristic can be good enough to be used without asking the user, but in many cases there is no such heuristic. For example, if ubuntu-desktop drops a dependency on, say, a hypothetical spreadsheet-application package, that doesn't mean it should be removed when the system is upgraded to the next release. The user might be using the application heavily, and would be quite upset to have it removed, even if there is another, compatible, but different program now installed by default (think gnumeric vs oo-calc: both work, more or less equally well, but they're different enough that a user might have a strong preference for one or the other). Thus, I am of the opinion that a tool to do cleanup, in collaboration with the user, is a good idea. I am, obviously, biased. I freely admit, though, that the current user interface needs review and improvement, and I welcome all help I can get. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
