On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:58:24 +0100 Jeff Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forget who said it, but someone said (if I understood correctly) that > aptitude would remove dependencies when a metapackage was selected for > deletion. That didn't work for me. I installed the kdelibs metapackage then > attempted to delete it --- 'aptitude remove kdelibs' removed the 45Kb > metapackage, but not the underlying programs. > Is there a flag I missed?
It is the auto flag. From what I can tell (IANAAE) the auto flag is added
whenever aptitude installed a package as a requirement from another package.
One can also add the auto flag to any package that they desire. The behavior
I have observed is that any package with the auto flag which is no longer a
dependency to any other package is removed.
So in the case chances are that there is a package or packages which are
dependant on those libs which is why they weren't removed. That or the auto
flag wasn't set. I am unsure on how aptitude would handle cross-dependant
packages which are both set to auto.
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