Re: aspell gets remove on OOo removal, why?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-03-26 08:54, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Thursday 26 March 2009 08:10:32 Celejar wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:32:50 -0700
> > Thorny <thorntreehome@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > > > The original poster wrote:
> > > > > I wonder, why does aspell get removed here.
> > > > Because it is marked as "automatically" installed.  When there are (or
> > > > will be) no more packages that depend on automatically installed
> > > > packages, the automatically installed packages are automatically
> > > > removed.
> > > > > And, how do I prevent aspell from getting removed.
> > > > # apt-get unmarkauto aspell
> > > You answered his question correctly, however, if there is no longer any
> > > package that depends on it, why would he want to leave it on the system.
> > Perhaps because the package can be used directly by the user (see 'man
> > aspell')?  I.e., it is not only a library, but also an interactive
> > spell checker.
>
> Also because it may be Recommended or Suggested by a package he still has 
> installed and uses.  (Normally, auto-installed Suggests are removed and 
> Recommends aren't but you can change either of those in your apt 
> configuration.)

I don't remember apt-get ever actually *removing* Suggests packages, 
but it quite often displays a blurb similar to:
    these packages are not needed anymore, please run
    "apt-get --auto-remove" to clean them up

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

"Freedom is not a license for anarchy."