apt-get is supposed to mark all dependencies of packages which are in section "metapackages" as manual. This is required in order to prevent the removal of the whole system when you remove the metapackage or one of its dependencies (which also remove the metapackage, of course).
So I suppose some (or allmost all) packages existed on your system before you installed kubuntu-desktop (or before apt-get got the code to handle "metapackges" section in a special way) and as such, these packages where not marked as manually installed. I looked into the changelog and the code to mark as manual installed for metapackage dependencies was integrated in 0.6.46.4ubuntu10 version on 2007-03-14 which happened during the beta stages of feisty. So if you started from a non-beta feisty or upgraded after 2007-03-14's change hit the archives you should not be affected. And question to Michael. What happens when /var/lib/apt/extended_states is removed? Does apt-get thinks that all packages are auto or manully installed? I tried to rename extended_states to extended_states.dis and did "apt-get remove ubuntu-standard". No complaint for autoremoval was made. So I suspect that apt-get thinks that all packages which are not in extended_state are manually installed. Is it really so? -- apt wants to auto-remove all my system!!! https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/64814 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
