ran computer janitor lost turboprint
Bug #704385 reported by
hlee
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #458872: Don't mark for removal manually installed packages.
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: computer-janitor
i thought computer-janitor was just cleaning up old files but instead it eliminated my paid version of turboprint .. not sure what else might have been damaged .. i dont know how to get back to working without paying again for turboprint ..
i am using the latest upgrades on ubuntu 10.10 amd 64 bit
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As far as i understand it, CJ's list of packages to remove is roughly equivalent to what you see in Synaptic in the 'local or obsolete' category. This means any software you did not install out of a repository (ubuntu standards or, e.g. launchpad PPA's) is regarded as potentially obsolete. As a consequence, any software where you just manually installed a .deb file will be regarded as "cleanable", even if you still use them on a daily basis.
In my opinion, although CJ warns about this in the description of the entries it considers for removal, this is way too dangerous for the common user (as aptly demonstrated here)... I expect a cleaner program to remove unnecessary stuff without the user having to go through huge package lists, checking manually if they maybe installed the marked packages manually at some point in the past. Cf. for a good implementation the standard Windows XP program (don't know the english name - Datenträgerbere inigung) .
Incidentally, this described behaviour is why I never use CJ - the dangers and administrative effort to mark all my manually installed packages just plain outweighs the benefits of a little less used disk space.