When stability is pointless

[Amit Joshi]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Adding my two cents here.
>
> Ubuntu needs a system for restoring old settings when new packages are
> installed so its possible to roll the OS back to the old settings.
> Sort of like Restore Points in Windows, and Linux needs a more
> reliable means of uninstalling installed packages.  Synaptic and Adept
> do this now but to a limited degree.  If a new package you install
> requires a lot of dependent packages which are downloaded also and you
> uninstall the one that called for those dependencies the packages
> added as dependencies don't get uninstalled along with it.  You have
> to guess at which ones you don't need and manually remove them one by
> one.  The Package Manager should keep track of these dependencies and
> remove dependent packages when you uninstall something unless its
> required by something else that's still installed.

<snip>

If I understand whats being said above, you are talking about apt-get
autoremove?


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Regards,
Amit Joshi
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