2009/11/7 David McPaul <dlmcpaul@xxxxxxxxx>: > But clearly you are sold on the idea, so one will be written and we > will all go through the growing pains of broken installs, uninstalls > that don't remove everything or remove too much. Just like all those > other package managers in Windows and the various linux distributions. > Users won't mind, they are used to it. > Sorry but this isn't true. Apt does a damn good job to install the correct dependencies and to remove everything when it's not needed. I never had to bother about removing stuff manually.