Adept 3.0 makes you go to a preview screen to review your changes before
committing them. I believe this satisfies the solution needed, as
described in comment 6.
** Changed in: adept (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed = Fix Released
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Adept allows removal of essential packages without warning
This seems like a duplicate of bug 55549. (This report has importance
set though.)
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Adept allows removal of essential packages without warning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104182
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A closely related issue has to do with meta-packages. Try removing kdm
in kubuntu. It will silently select kubuntu-desktop. That's already
bad enough. But even if we added a pop-up instead of quietly selecting
the dependency (kubuntu-desktop), it wouldn't be good enough: the user
doesn't
Actually, this article is kinda wrong on two fronts. First, the
assumption is made that removing a package shouldn't remove all of the
packages that depend on that package. If you remove ALSA, sorry, but
everything that depends on ALSA should also be removed. That's not a
bug, that's the
Sorry, I was wrong, removing kubuntu-desktop doesn't remove the packages
that depend on this meta-package.
So, all we would need is a confirmation, pop-up window in Adept: when
you do Apply Changes, you get to see the info of the Preview Changes
dialog, and you need to accept these changes. This
Agreed, this is an issue that needs some sorting. I'll see what I can
do over the next week to get this one rolling.
I'm also wondering if this should be considered somewhat long the lines
of a security issue. It's not a big security issue, but I could see how
someone could present a user with
This needs some degree of priority...
** Changed in: adept (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Michael D. Stemle, Jr. (manchicken)
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Adept allows removal of essential packages without warning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/104182
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