Re: Purging a package............... (best practise for SuggestsImportant)

[Scott Ferguson <scott.ferguson.debian.user@gmail.com>]

On 25/11/14 21:33, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Ma, 25 nov 14, 14:25:13, Charlie wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for that information, it was most helpful.
>>
>> I decided to add:
>>
>>  
>>    SuggestsImportant
>>    {
>>          "false"
>>    };
>>  };
>>
>> To the existing etc/aptapt.conf.d/01autoremove file.
> 
> This may or may not be what you want, but changing that file is a 
> conffile of the package 'apt', so you will now be getting a prompt 
> whenever the maintainers make changes to it, whether related or not.

Good point!
My fault Charlie, using 'could' in that example was bad and I should
have thought of the possible results - it'd have been safest if I'd just
given the fragments and /etc/apt/apt.conf example doc link to explain
the index format for more complex apt config changes.

I'd recommend reverting to the original /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01autoremove
and creating a new fragment e.g.:-
91suggestsimport with the content line that Andrei originally suggested.


> 
> If you don't want that you should probably revert to the package 
> maintainer's file and put your customizations in your own snippet under 
> apt.conf.d.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
> 

Thanks Andrei.


Kind regards