Expected behavior: respect user decision and preserve explicitly installed third-party packages
What happened instead:
The way system-cleaner identify some packages as "cruft" is problematic and worrying. I got my Chinese input method removed by system-cleaner, and when I reinstalled the two packages using dpkg, they are listed by system-cleaner as "cruft" immediately.
I tested again with Opera (opera_9.60.2444.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb provided by Opera for Hardy), and immediately after installation it was listed as "cruft".
This is going a bit too far, and without warning, can cause quite a lot of agony on a normal user's part.
Propose fix: at least uncheck these explicitly installed third party packages by default.
Binary package hint: system-cleaner
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
Package version: system- cleaner- 1.10.3- 0ubuntu1
Expected behavior: respect user decision and preserve explicitly installed third-party packages
What happened instead:
The way system-cleaner identify some packages as "cruft" is problematic and worrying. I got my Chinese input method removed by system-cleaner, and when I reinstalled the two packages using dpkg, they are listed by system-cleaner as "cruft" immediately.
The said packages are for SunPinyin, which are not in repo, and can be found here: http:// blog.eshangrao. com/2008/ 08/25/555/. blog.eshangrao. com/wp- content/ uploads/ file/scim- sunpinyin_ 1.0~hg20080607- 2_i386. deb blog.eshangrao. com/wp- content/ uploads/ file/sunpinyin- data-le_ 1.0~hg20080607- 2_all.deb
I'm also posting the direct links here as most of you probably can't read Chinese:
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I tested again with Opera (opera_ 9.60.2444. gcc4.qt3_ i386.deb provided by Opera for Hardy), and immediately after installation it was listed as "cruft".
This is going a bit too far, and without warning, can cause quite a lot of agony on a normal user's part.
Propose fix: at least uncheck these explicitly installed third party packages by default.