Comment 8 for bug 31126

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:09:49PM -0000, Erich Pawlik wrote:
> I don't think that aborting the installation is a robust behavior - it is
> simple to program, but robustness to my opinion is not a question of
> programming simplicity, but of ease of use. If a kernel update fails, a
> lot of people with not few technical skills (the Ubuntu target group I
> guess) will be out in the dark and don't know where to proceed from there.
> In addition, aborting a program is only simple it you accept to leave your
> garbage lying around all over the place. Again not very appropriate for
> the target group.

In practical terms, there are cases where an error unwind is simply
inherently riskier than aborting. Re-entrantly invoking the package manager
to try to dynamically free up space during the installation of another
package...that is one of these cases.

An error message explaining that available space is exhausted, with a button
to retry, would go a lot further toward a robust AND usable solution.

> I am not very pleased that a lot of kernels are lying around, but can deal
> with this manually.

We are aware of this issue, but have not solved it yet.

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 - mdz