On Jul 28 2015, Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>> Installation of a package from the 'metapackages' section does *not*
>> mark its dependencies as automatically installed.
>
> Really? So, if someone would install a metapackage (for a test), and
> then later uninstall it, its dependencies will remain on the system?
>
> Is there any simple way to remove them?
Use debfoster to keep track of automatically/manually installed
packages. I think it works much better than apt and aptitude.
The only think it doesn't yet do is that if
- a is automatically installed
- b is automatically installed
- c is manually installed and depends on a|b
Either a or b can be removed. But I don't think apt* handled that either.
Best,
-Nikolaus
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