On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:46:55PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: >On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:50:24PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 04:01:46PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: >> >On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:37:33PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> Limiting the package list to that in aptitude and then pressing 'M' does >> >> result in the package being scheduled for deletion. With the proper filter >> >> it should remain installed and be marked as automatically installed. >> > >> >Ah, I think I understand what you want now. >> > >> >This should be what you want... >> > >> >~i~R~i!~M >> > >> >I hope! ;) >> >> Nope :( >> >> As a test I did this: >> >> 1. Find package that's marked auto and kept installed by some other >> package (I picked vim-gnome, it's kept installed by another vim >> package). >> 2. Switch to flat view. >> 3. Limit the view using your expression above. >> >> If it all works then the package I marked should show up, after all it's >> not marked auto and another installed package keeps it installed >> (through a recommends). No luck though, vim-gnome doesn't show up :( > >Nothing depends on vim-gnome, that's why it doesn't show up. The other >vim packages only recommend it. To look for packages that don't have >any reverse dependencies *and* aren't recommended by any installed >packages try this: > >~i(~R~i|~Rrecommends:~i)!~M
That seems to work better. I tried concocting something like that yesterday but must have gotten something wrong since aptitude choked on my attempts. _Almost_ all packages in that list can be marked auto and still remain installed. I'm not really sure why not _all_ packages in that list can be marked auto. One interesting package is 'ntp'. I have 'ntp-server' installed and marked auto. It depends on 'ntp', but still I can't mark 'ntp' auto, doing so will trigger removal of 'ntp-server'... Maybe I should draw up the dependencies for the ntp-related packages to see if I can make sense out of this :-) /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Here's the social reason that DRM fails: keeping an honest user honest is like keeping a tall user tall. -- Cory Doctorow, Microsoft Research DRM talk
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