Re: How to trick my Debian in thinking that a package is not installed
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:32:25AM -0500, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@iguanasuicide.net> was heard to say:
> On Tuesday 27 April 2010 08:48:48 Daniel Burrows wrote:
> > Essentially, it causes held packages to be added to the root
> > set (and that's the best implementation, I think: modify aptitude's
> > custom root set function to include held packages).
>
> You lost me, but I haven't delved into the aptitude source code. My approach
> would have been just making the 'hold' action also clear the 'automatically
> installed' flag; essentially "institutionalizing" the temporary solution.
> But, I defer to your solution as it sounds more flexible.
That's just a complicated way to say "pretend held packages are
manually installed". It's important to do this and not just refuse to
remove them because their dependencies should stay on the system too.
Daniel
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