** Summary changed: - [Wishlist] Removing software+dependencies currently much more difficult than installing them + [Wishlist] Removing software+dependencies in Synaptic is currently more difficult than installing them
** Description changed: Binary package hint: synaptic Consider the following example: - I want to install the package "alien" to convert a RPM to DEB. Synaptic - also installs: debhelper, dpkg-dev, gettext, html2text, intltool-debian - and po-debconf automatically (very nice! :) + I want to install the package "alien" to convert a RPM to DEB. Synaptic also asks (in Hardy) to install eight dependent packages: + debhelper dpkg-dev gettext html2text intltool-debian libtimedate-perl patch po-debconf + It does this automatically (very nice! :) and I just have to push a single button to mark them too. - Now that I'm done, if I want to remove the package "alien" and it only - removes alien. I have to manually hunt down the other packages and mark - them for removal. + Now that I'm done, if I want to remove the package "alien" and its + dependencies, its not quite as nice. If I set up an 'Automatic + Removable' filter and mark alien for removal, the eight dependent + packages then appear on the list as well and I can then mark those for + removal. While easier than manually tracking down unused dependencies, + this is still somewhat more difficult than installing them in the first + place. - What would be nice would be a way to either: - - - automatically detect what dependencies are no longer needed by any other installed packages and offer to uninstall them - or - - allow me to go into my history [1] and have the option, if possible, to press an "undo" button, e.g. to reinstall those packages listed as removed and uninstall the ones listed as having been installed. - - [1] File -> History; e.g. where it says: - - --- - Commit Log for Sun Jun 24 03:30:06 2007 - - - Installed the following packages: - alien (8.65) - debhelper (5.0.42ubuntu1) - dpkg-dev (1.13.24ubuntu6) - gettext (0.16.1-1ubuntu2) - html2text (1.3.2a-3) - intltool-debian (0.35.0+20060710.1) - po-debconf (1.0.8) - --- + What would be nicer would be a reverse the install process similar to + how running "sudo apt-get autoremove alien" works, perhaps by a new + removal option in Synaptic along the lines of 'Mark for autoremoval'. -- [Wishlist] Removing software+dependencies in Synaptic is currently more difficult than installing them https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
