> -o APT::AutoRemove::RecommendsImportant=0 > but remember that the installation of recommend packages is > recommend (SCNR) as policy defines it as packages which are > installed on all but non-default systems. So it is not unlikely > that you will loose functionality by removing "only" recommends…
Thanks, that was basically just what I needed; I went through all packages that the forced autoremove wanted to remove (cancelling it), explicitely installed those that I wanted to keep, then force-autoremoved the rest. (Which freed more than 1 GB of storage on this small machine; BTW I'm usually using apt-get not aptitude to install packages (although I've used aptitude for the dist-upgrade from lenny to lenny to testing), so the number of packages to go through was smaller than it might have been.) I suggest to document this flag, along with your warning. (I could write a patch, but I'm sure it would take me much longer than someone doing it when fits, and it may not be perfect then anyway. Or I could open a wishlist bug, tell me if I should do so.) Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
