Installing LXDE marks 2 libraries as _manually installed_; why?
Hello.
In Debian 8, after having installed a text-only system with the LXDE CD
(8.2.0), and proceeding to install LXDE with aptitude, I noticed that
"libpango1.0-0" and "libpangox-1.0-0" get marked as "Packages to be
installed" instead of "Packages being automatically installed to satisfy
dependencies".
I tracked the dependency chain and found that "libvte9" is responsible
for this. To test it, I actually installed "libvte9" with both aptitude
and with apt-get; in both cases, the aforesaid 2 libraries get
registered as "manually installed". I tested this within a virtual
machine and started with a clean install of the text-only system both times.
I think that these libraries should have been marked as "automatically
installed" (like all other libraries that get installed as dependencies)
since I didn't request them specifically. Why I am not getting the
expected result? Is this a bug, that I should report?. Is it safe to
mark them as automatically installed in my system?
Regards and thanks in advance.
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