With a little investigation, it turns out that this is definitely specific to the way the MythTV packages work. apt-get autoremove found ~120mb of MythTV cruft lying around even after uninstalling it from the Software Center (mythtv-themes, mythtv-database, mythtv-backend, mythtv- frontend, and a whole bunch of mysql server packages). I installed all of these things using the MythTV Backend Setup package, which seems to be sort of a meta-package. When I uninstalled the MythTV Frontend from the Software Center, it marked the Backend Setup package as uninstalled as well.
I'm not really sure what the appropriate way to handle this is. From a user standpoint, it seems like if I install something from the Software Center, removing it from the SC shouldn't leave 120 MB of unused packages around. I realize that working with the un/installation of metapackages presents tricky situations, and it's probably being discussed in a bug report with a larger scope somewhere. If anyone knows of one of those reports and thinks it's appropriate to close this report as a duplicate, I'd probably agree with that resolution. -- I uninstalled MythTV, but I can still run the software https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/529740 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
