On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:00:35PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: > > Those are exactly the correct semantics. It makes no sense to remove the > > depends of a metapackage *and leave the metapackage installed* - what > > purpose would that serve? > Being able to > # apt-get --purge remove wicd > (thus removing any dependency/recommends/anything), without caring for the > removed parts singularly? That result can be achieved by *not* making wicd a metapackage, and moving its Depends to Recommends. So removing wicd-curses will not remove wicd automatically, but removing wicd will remove wicd-* automatically. Or do you really mean that you expect the package manager to treat removal of 'wicd' differently based on whether the removal is triggered by 'apt-get remove wicd' vs. 'apt-get remove dependency-of-wicd'? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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