Hi James,
James McCoy wrote:
> Since upgrading to 2.4.0, various packages are suddenly showing up as
> "to be removed". As far as I can tell, this is only happening when
> those packages are satisfying an ORed relationship.
[...]
> The following packages will be removed:
>
> [...] xserver-xorg-video-i128(a) xserver-xorg-video-intel(a)
> xserver-xorg-video-nouveau(a) xserver-xorg-video-vesa(a)
[...]
> $ cupt why xserver-xorg-video-i128 | tail -n1
> xserver-xorg 1:7.6+11: Depends: xserver-xorg-video-all | xorg-driver-video
>
> All of the installed xserver-xorg-video-* packages Provide
> xorg-driver-video and xserver-xorg-video-all isn't installed.
I don't see a bug here. You only need one video DDX package to satisfy
the dependency by xserver-xorg, so presumably you will want to do
cupt unmarkauto xserver-xorg-video-i128
cupt unmarkauto xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
... etc ...
to indicate that these packages are not installed just to satisfy a
dependency but because you want them.
That said, an alternative "auto"-like state meaning "Please remove
this package once no installed package Depends on, Recommends, or
Suggests it" might be interesting. That way, when a package loses a
Suggests, it could be possible to automatically remove the
corresponding cruft.
What do you think?
Jonathan
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