computer janitor deletes the wrong files
Bug #380434 reported by
sinbad
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #285746: System cleaner removes explicitly installed third-party packages.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| computer-janitor (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Computer janitor in my opinion should not be a default program included in Ubuntu since it doesn't seem to know which packages it can delete and which are useless. For instance every time i run computer janitor it recommends it recommends i remove all the deb packages from programs i downloaded from the Internet and not add/remove like Frostwire and Play on Linux. Of coarse when i do this i delete these programs and have to download them off the Internet again, obviously these are important packages. All i'm asking is that the janitor either needs to be removed or improved for it to be part of the standard release of linux.
| affects: | ubuntu → computer-janitor (Ubuntu) |
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I'm sorry to hear you have had a bad time with Computer Janitor.
It is not possible for a computer program to reliably know what is and is not important to you. That is why the Computer Janitor does not automatically remove packages but rather asks you, the user, if the stuff it finds should be removed or not.
If you click away the little tick in front of the programs/packages you want to keep, Computer Janitor will no longer suggest them to be removed. They will be shown in the list, but with the tick removed, so they won't be removed.
(We will improve the heuristics CJ uses, but it will always be guesswork.)