On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 07:03 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I really don't understand what you're asking for. The "A flag" says > "remove this package when nothing uses it". You want to have packages > that aren't installed and that nothing depends on, but are still > automatically installed? (automatically installed for what?) Well... *G* yes...
The thing is the following: There are many packages, which I do not install for their own,... for example m4-doc.... I just install it, if I install m4 itself, too. Now unfortunately many of such packages are neither recommended nor suggested by their "parents". The same holds also true e.g. for many -dbg packages. I'd "manually" install some libfoo-dev package,... and would like to have the -dbg (and perhaps also -doc) package, too. What I now do is: - I deactivated the auto-removal feature - Set the A flag on such packages manually - From time to time,... go over all packages, that aptitude _would_ delete (because of the A flag/etc.) and delete only those which I really want to get rid of. Of course I could simply not mark such -doc, -dbg or similar packages with "A",... but this would mean that I probably forget to delete them, as I never look over them again. Better explained? :) > Or are you just looking for a way to put "Aptitude::DeleteUnused=false" > in /etc/apt/apt.conf or ~/.aptitude? (hint: use a text editor ;-) ) Nono ;) Cheers, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
