[Bug 692791] Re: Installing then removing evolution leaves unused packages behind

[Torsten Spindler]

I do think apt does the right thing. On Precise I did:

$ sudo apt-get install evolution
$ sudo apt-get purge evolution
$ sudo apt-get autoremove

Note that purge/remove will only remove the package and packages that
are directly dependent on it, e.g. evolution-plugins. Packages that have
been installed as a requirement for the soon to be removed package
(evolution) are marked auto and will get removed with 'autoremove' if no
dependent package on it is found.

I mark the bug invalid.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to aptitude in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/692791

Title:
  Installing then removing evolution leaves unused packages behind

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Invalid
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “evolution” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  If i want to uninstall Evolution because i want to replace it, for
  example, with Thunderbird, i can't, because trying to un-install
  Evolution there are too much packages related to it and don't know if
  some of those packages should or shouldn't be removed.

  apt 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu9, Ubuntu 11.10 beta 1
  1. sudo apt-get install evolution
  2. sudo apt-get remove evolution

  What happens:
  1. evolution, evolution-common, evolution-plugins, evolution-webcal, and libevolution are installed.
  2. evolution and evolution-plugins are removed, but evolution-common, evolution-webcal, and libevolution are left installed.

  What should happen:
  2. evolution, evolution-common, evolution-plugins, evolution-webcal, and libevolution are all removed.

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/692791/+subscriptions