Comment 29 for bug 285746

The 'whitelist' is created when the packages are unticked.... although it is not clear that is the case.

Having computer-janitor alone wouldn't be a problem as far as I can see. For those that can make use of it's purpose but would rather not use synaptic can use the CLI for it.... Having computer-janitor-gtk in makes it much more likely that a manually installed package or more than one previous kernel would get removed.... But as per my comments on the forums I fail to see why this is a default package anyway and linked to ubuntu-desktop... It is power users only due to this issue.... power users are more likely to use synaptic anyway... power users can install from repos if needed (or OEMs etc)....

As per the notes above this was pulled from Intrepid as a default package being considered to risky due to the issue being discussed and that the issue would be worked on for jaunty.... The package was given a new name but the underlying issue still existed and being exposed to new users in a default menu option with a 'comfortable' GUI just compounds matters...