Re: Removing what a meta-package provided

[Daniel Déchelotte <maitre_yodan@fr.club-internet.invalid>]

Jon Dowland a écrit :

| aptitude does what you want by marking which packages were
| automatically installed, so if you had done
| 
| $ aptitude install kde
| $ aptitude remove kde
| 
| The desired result would be achieved.

You are right, but consider a more realistic situation, such as "install
kde, install kdeaccessibility, install kate-plugins, remove kde" => nothing
removed here. Aptitude relies on the precise history of installations and
removals, and the user has to keep track of what packages he installed,
before he can "easily" revert it.

I think an history-independent behaviour makes senses for meta-packages.

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Daniel Déchelotte
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