I've just created a new debian sid installation inside a chroot using debootstrap. If I install "gnome-core" in it, there are a dozen of gnome-core packages which are marked as manually installed even though I only installed a single package. I don't think that this is the right behavior.
I've expected that there is only one more package in the "manually installed" package list (namely "gnome-core") but instead I saw a lot of other packages. These packages are marked as manually installed: baobab brasero caribou caribou-antler dconf-cli dconf-editor dconf-tools empathy eog evince fonts-cantarell gdm3 gnome-backgrounds gnome-calculator gnome-core gnome-dictionary gnome-disk-utility gnome-font-viewer gnome-icon-themes-extras gnome-packagekit gnome-panel gnome-screenshot gnome-system-log gnome-terminal gtk2-engines gucharmap gvfs-bin iceweasel libatk-adaptor libcanberra-pulse libcaribou-gtk-module libcaribou-gtk3-module libjbig0 libpangox-1.0-0 libpangoxft-1.0-0 tracker-gui vino So nearly every direct dependency of the "gnome-core" package is going to be marked as manually installed. You can reproduce it like this: - set up debian chroot using debootstrap - open aptitude in interactive mode - search for "gnome-core" - press "+" to mark this package to be installed - press "g" and see what would have happened Unfortunately, I saw this kind of problem several times with different packages… regardless of whether I used aptitude or apt-get to install the packages. Within aptitude's interactive mode you can see what aptitude is planning to do and even then are packages with an invalid "manually installed" flag. FYI: I do not install recommended or suggested packages by default: APT::Install-Recommends "false"; APT::Install-Suggests "false"; Do you have any idea? If you need more information, please let me know. -- Jascha Geerds j...@ekby.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
