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system-cleaner package

  1. Bug #285746
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 285746

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Gabriel Bauman (gabrielbauman) wrote :

Besides all of the above, auto-removable packages don't turn up in this tool. Really, auto-removable packages should be all that's represented here until we can figure out how to avoid removing intentionally-installed software.

Idea 1:

Why not modify gdebi to record which out-of-repository packages the user installs? That way we could avoid removing those packages, since we know they were explicitly added by the user.

Idea 2:

Add a "Not Cruft" button to cruft-remover. This should write to the same 'whitelist' gdebi would contribute to in idea 1.