totally remove assossiated in synaptic
Bug #1379867 reported by
xoristzatziki
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| synaptic (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Bug Description
ubuntu 14.04
synaptic 0.81.1
I want to totally remove an application.
If there are depended apps which synaptic proposes to remove
there is no way to select "totally remove them also".
This must be by hand.
| Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
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| xoristzatziki (simsonbike-bugs) wrote | #1 |
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| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Expired |
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open synaptic.
select an application that has dependencies that will be removed if the application will be removed.
Right click and select "totally remove" the application.
A message with "the following applications will also be removed" will be displayed.
Selecting OK does not "place" these dependencies in a "totally remove" state but in the state of "simply" remove. (aka: although the selected application will be "purged" the dependencies will just be uninstalled and not purged.
User has to manually mark them to be purged.
Personally prefer to save the annotations, change all from "uninstall" to "purge" (in a text editor) then load the annotations again.
Since user selects the purge for the "main application" either all its dependencies should be also purged or (at least) provide a way to automatically mark the relevant dependencies to be purged.