On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 06:18:29PM +0100, Jascha Geerds wrote: > 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 already mention in this bugreport why this is the correct behavior. (If it is the right behavior is kinda a personal preference and as such we default to false-negative instead of false-positive in regards to "no longer needed packages" as 'wasted diskspace' is not as critical as 'no longer usable system') In short: The package gnome-core is in section "metapackages" and this section is set in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections, so the packages gnome-core depends on are marked as manually installed. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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