Re: Metapackage dependencies: "Depends" or "Recommends"?

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 17:22 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Ole Streicher (2015-07-28 16:33:17)
> > Ben Hutchings <ben@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?
> 
> That is my experience, yes.  Seems specific to metapackages, so I 
> suspect there is some APT wizardry going on, treating those specially.

Specifically, the APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections configuration section
(in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove in a default install).

Regards,

Adam