Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.5.4-1
Severity: wishlist
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It is not unfrequent that people do install packages just in order to give
them a try, even because in Debian installing packages is so easy, safe, and
clean. In my experience, it's quite frequent to forget to either remove or
further be trying them. Another rationale for wanting installed packages to
be removed/purged (semi-)automatically is when they are needed only for a
really short time.
In my weird opinion, it would be nice if one could "temp-install" packages so
that when running after at least a specified (or defaulted) amount of time
aptitude would warn her/him about their presence and make her/him choice
among either:
1) just remove them (and their no more used dependencies), or
2) let them installed and pause warnings for a specified amount of time, or
3) let them installed and stop warnings forever, or
4) just ignore this for that time.
The above-mentioned quantity of time might be provided as a command-line
parameter.
Of course, this would imply information about temporarily installed packages
to be stored somewhere. I have no valuable knowledge about aptitude's
internals.
--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable mi.mirror.garr.it
500 testing security.debian.org
500 testing mi.mirror.garr.it
1 experimental mi.mirror.garr.it
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
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libapt-pkg-libc6.5-6-4.4 |
libc6 (>= 2.5-5) | 2.5-11
libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2-20070516) | 1:4.2-20070627-1
libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5) | 5.6-3
libsigc++-2.0-0c2a (>= 2.0.2) | 2.0.17-2
libstdc++6 (>= 4.2-20070516) | 4.2-20070627-1
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