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 > > 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. In a sid chroot: # apt update && apt install task-kde-desktop && apt remove konqueror [...] The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: apper apper-data coinor-libcbc3 coinor-libcgl1 coinor-libclp1 coinor-libcoinmp1v5 coinor-libcoinutils3v5 coinor-libosi1v5 cups-pk-helper espeak-ng-data fonts-opensymbol fonts-symbola gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-atspi-2.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-harfbuzz-0.0 gir1.2-notify-0.7 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gir1.2-secret-1 gir1.2-wnck-3.0 gstreamer1.0-libav gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly hyphen-en-us iw kdeaccessibility kmag kmousetool kmouth kontrast laptop-detect libabw-0.1-1 libatk-adaptor libboost-filesystem1.74.0 libboost-iostreams1.74.0 libboost-locale1.74.0 libbox2d2 libbrlapi0.8 libcdr-0.1-1 libclucene-contribs1v5 libclucene-core1v5 libdotconf0 libe-book-0.1-1 libeot0 libepubgen-0.1-1 libespeak-ng1 libetonyek-0.1-1 libexttextcat-2.0-0 libexttextcat-data libfreehand-0.1-1 libglu1-mesa libharfbuzz-icu0 libkf5konq6 liblangtag-common liblangtag1 libmhash2 libmspub-0.1-1 libmwaw-0.3-3 libmythes-1.2-0 libnumbertext-1.0-0 libnumbertext-data libodfgen-0.1-1 libopencore-amrnb0 libopencore-amrwb0 liborcus-0.17-0 liborcus-parser-0.17-0 libpagemaker-0.0-0 libpangoxft-1.0-0 libpcaudio0 libqaccessibilityclient-qt5-0 libqt5opengl5 libqt5xmlpatterns5 libqxp-0.0-0 libraptor2-0 librasqal3 librdf0 libreoffice-base-core libreoffice-calc libreoffice-common libreoffice-core libreoffice-draw libreoffice-help-common libreoffice-help-en-us libreoffice-impress libreoffice-kf5 libreoffice-math libreoffice-plasma libreoffice-qt5 libreoffice-style-breeze libreoffice-style-colibre libreoffice-writer librevenge-0.0-0 libsidplay1v5 libsonic0 libstaroffice-0.0-0 libstartup-notification0 libuno-cppu3 libuno-cppuhelpergcc3-3 libuno-purpenvhelpergcc3-3 libuno-sal3 libuno-salhelpergcc3-3 libvisio-0.1-1 libwnck-3-0 libwnck-3-common libwpd-0.10-10 libwpg-0.3-3 libwps-0.4-4 libxmlsec1-nss libyajl2 libzmf-0.0-0 lp-solve mythes-en-us node-normalize.css orca perl-tk print-manager python3-brlapi python3-cairo python3-certifi python3-chardet python3-charset-normalizer python3-cups python3-cupshelpers python3-idna python3-louis python3-pkg-resources python3-pyatspi python3-requests python3-six python3-smbc python3-speechd python3-uno python3-urllib3 python3-xdg qtgstreamer-plugins-qt5 sound-icons speech-dispatcher speech-dispatcher-audio-plugins speech-dispatcher-espeak-ng system-config-printer-common system-config-printer-udev task-desktop tasksel tasksel-data uno-libs-private ure x11-apps x11-session-utils xbrlapi xinit xkbset xorg Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: kde-baseapps kde-plasma-desktop kde-standard konq-plugins konqueror task-kde-desktop 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 37 not upgraded. -- WBR, wRAR
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