On 8 December 2012 20:56, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antti-juh...@kaijanaho.fi> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 01:05:31PM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote: >> Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <antti-juh...@kaijanaho.fi> wrote: >> > I'm not really interested in keeping everything that is suggested. >> > What I am interested in is keeping packages that I selected *because* >> > they were suggested, as long as the suggestion is in force. The >> > suggested "suggested automatic" state would help here. >> >> In effect, you wish to make selected relationships stronger, that is, >> upgrade a particular suggests to recommends or depends. > > That's one possible implementation path. Not the only one, I think. > >> This is tracked at [1]. > > I just read that bug log. Doesn't sound like what I want, though I suppose it > could be used to provide what I want.
In effect, is what you are requesting like this: - “Manually-Installed-Suggests” will keep an auto-installed package; - “Suggests” will not keep an auto-installed package; ? > >> Note that a similar effect can be acheived using a local metapackage >> that depends on both the main package and the important suggested >> package. Then you install just this metapackage, and it takes care to >> upgrade the dependency for you. [2] > > Yeah, which is a lot of work compared to just + M. Marking the suggested package as auto does not provide the level of control you request, or do I miss something? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
