Regarding computer-janitor

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:44:43 -0400 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sunday 29 March 2009 6:25:55 am Åskar Andersson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Hello, regarding bug https://launchpad.net/bugs/285746
>> 
>> The program has not changed a lot since it was declined for intrepid, is it
>> then wise to put in Jaunty? It is still treating manually installed packages
>> as cruft, an unacceptable behavior. Threads promoting it's removal until
>> this is fixed; http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1109200 and
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1080116
>
>How, exactly, do you propose the software tell the difference between packages 
>that were removed from the archive as obsolete (ie "cruft") and packages 
>manually installed not from the repository at all?

Since Launchpad has a ~complete record of packages in Ubuntu releases, the information is discoverable.

Generally I consider it rude of my tools to not respect decisions I've made.  I'd consider false positive assessment of manually installed packages as cruft a significant problem.

Scott K