On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:44:29PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 03:28:21PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> > > > I support many people with Debian, what I often see is that they remove a
> > > > package, and then also the meta-package is removed. And later all
> > > > dependencies of the meta-package are removed by accident.
> > > Not to rain on your parade, but those people should consider upgrading
> > > their Debian installations as since at least apt version 1.1 shipped
> > > before current old-old-stable (that is, they run at best Debian 8 jessie
> > > which is covered only by Extended LTS) apt actually marks dependencies
> > > of packages in section metapackages as manually installed if the
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> > > metapackage is removed due to the removal of one of its dependencies
> > > – but doesn't if you decide to remove the metapackage explicitly.
> > Then I guess there are some other reasons for this to happen not
> > explainable by "these peoiple just run jessie".
> OK, this was really easy.
[…]
> # apt update && apt install task-kde-desktop && apt remove konqueror
task-kde-desktop has Section: tasks (as does all the other task- packages
as they are built from the same source package).
We could add "*/tasks" to the list of APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections
in apt or reconsider having tasks be in their own Section, personally
I would prefer the later.
There are many other packages which feel like metapackages, but aren't
for apt as they are in the 'wrong' section – which is what I meant later
on in the mail, but that was arguably very well hidden.
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
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