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A better way to uninstall software.
While I've been re-learning my way around Mint, I've found that some software doesn't show up in the GUI package manager. Removing it with Apt doesn't give the option to remove dependencies or optional extras by default, you have to do it manually. Installing something from Github has to be done separately.
Even if it's an optional extra, some software that monitors installations and cleanly uninstalls them would be handy :)
Learning to use autoremove will do that. I also like good old debfoster.
Debfoster looks interesting, but they both seem to just deal with Apt. Something that covers the whole system would be ideal :)