Hello, 2014-03-23 20:32 GMT+01:00 Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org>:
> Right, and previously people complained because removing the task removed > their complete desktop. We cannot have both and decided to switch to the > safe site and mark dependencies of metapackages as manually installed. > ok - this is not, what I did (or would!) expect, but this is not the place to discuss this. Nevertheless, is there something strange happening - or am I again expecting some other behavior?! * do above (install minimal debian, lxde-task) * remove some other package, which caused some depended/suggested packages to be installed * (1) "apt-get -s autoremove" will show you the auto-installed packages to be removed. * remove network-manager-gnome "apt-get remove --purge network-manager-gnome" * (2) "apt-get -s autoremove" will show you some more packages to be removed * run aptitude which will try to re-install "network-manager-gnome" so far, everything is expected. But: If I tell aptitude to keep "network-manager-gnome" purged (_) and proceed. I would expect aptitude to remove all packages, which "apt-get -s autoremove"(2) showed, but instead aptitude will only remove the packages which were installed by the "autoremove"(1). But the real problem: the packages which were automatically installed by "network-manager-gnome" loose their auto-flag and are no longer displayed by "apt-get autoremove"/aptitude. Is this the expected behavior? Fabian
