Well apt-get is not for the casual user, the software center and, to a lesser extent, Synaptic are. I can't speak of what happened to mark lancelot as ready to be autoremoved, but from apt-get's perspective, there's really not much it can do. It saw that lancelot was only installed to satisfy a dependency of some other package X, and that package X is no longer on the system. 9 times out of 10, the user really doesn't have a need for that package, and will want it removed. But there are cases where the user does use the package, and this is why you need to carefully consider whether a package should be autoremoved before you accept, and if not, then mark it as manually installed. I agree, this is by no means a perfect system, but how could it be improved?
-- plasma-widget-lancelot with failed dependencies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/532031 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
