Comment 8 for bug 1725861

Balint, if you think this is about disk space, I'm afraid you've missed my point. These packages are individually tiny. The point is that 365MiB of packages is a *lot* of packages - all of which are unsupported, many of which are no longer available in Ubuntu at all anymore, each of which represents a change in behavior between an upgraded system and a newly installed system that causes a combinatoric explosion of possible configurations in Ubuntu's "supported" upgrade path - "supported" in quotes, because in practice, any time a user stumbles because of such a difference, they will categorically told by the developers to remove the unsupported package.

The default behavior of Ubuntu should give users systems which, on upgrade, are as well-supported and supportable as new installs. The current behavior, in its asymmetry, does not give us that. The tools are wrong.