Contributor CSMatt

When I do an upgrade with Update Manager, many packages get removed from my system, but the configuration files remain. I remember having an issue with Compiz Fusion when I upgraded to Gutsy because the old Beryl configuration files were left by Update Manager. What I would like to see is an option in the preferences of Update Manager and Add/Remove Programs to automatically purge a package instead of merely removing it.

I currently use aptitude exclusively for installing programs because it marks the packages it installs so that, if I were to remove the package later, it will also remove the dependencies it installed (assuming those dependencies aren't need by anything else). Add/Remove, Synaptic, and Update Manager lack this function and it would be very nice if there was an option in these front-ends to allow for an easy way of efficiently keeping unused packages from taking up disk space.