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[Mantas Kriaučiūnas <mantas@xxxxxx>]

** Also affects: baltix
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  Can't delete cached package data from USC

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in Baltix GNU/Linux:
  New

Bug description:
  'Remove' does not actually remove data (until later).  When I click to
  remove an app in Software Center, the app data (200mb in the case of
  Vendetta) is left on my computer for days until apt clears the cache.
  If a user wanted to clear space on their machine and was uninstalling
  applications for the purpose of clearing space, this would be very
  frustrating. Many users are people who do not know how to clear the
  apt cache (or in many cases, don't even know apt exists, never mind a
  cache)

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#residual>: "In the “File”
  menu, immediately following the “Remove Including Settings” item
  should be a “Show Residual Files” item..."

  
  On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 04:21:34PM -0800, Julien Funk wrote:
  > Hey Michael,
  > I was recently testing the zero $ purchase of Vendetta online.  The
  > software installed properly after downloading 200mb of content.
  >
  > Next, I removed it using Software Center and reinstalled it again.
  > Everything installed and uninstalled visually.  I was unable to find
  > Vendetta in the list.
  >
  > Next, I installed it again.  It installed in a matter of seconds without
  > downloading the 200mb of content again.
  >
  > I would expect a prompt when 'Remove' was clicked to delete all content
  > associated with the application.

  [mvo]
  Right, this has to do with the way apt works, it will cache the
  downloaded deb package for a certain amount of time (around two days
  by default) in /var/cache/apt/archives. This is true for all debs.

  I agree that its kind of odd (and unexpected) that remove does not
  remove the package but only the content of the package.

  Cheers,
   Michael
  [/mvo]

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