Re: Using deborphan

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

"Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> writes:

> On 08/16/2007 05:45 PM, Rick Pasotto wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 08:23:12AM +1000, Wei Wang wrote:
>>> I recommend you always use Aptitude as your primary package
>>> manager. It automatically delete orphaned packages.
>>
>> What if I'm still using that program? I don't *want* it
>> deleted. Just because it's not being maintained is no reason to
>> delete it. So long as it still runs and is useful it should *not* be
>> deleted.
>>
>
> Then use aptitude to change that program's status to "hold":
>
> aptitude hold gpm

No, this is not what you want.  You need to tell aptitude that the
package is "manually installed", which can be achieved by

aptitude unmarkauto gpm

Regards,
        Sven