Re: aptitude again
On 2016-06-30 18:47:27 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2016-06-30 17:34 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > aptitude upgrade is now removing things. I ought, of course, to have
> > typed safe-upgrade, but I thought only full-upgrade was supposed to
> > remove anything.
>
> It removes packages which are marked as automatically installed and are
> unused (i.e. not depended upon, recommended or suggested by any
> manually installed package). This has been the default behavior for
> many years (IIRC, since the safe-upgrade command has been implemented).
It can actually remove more (e.g. packages that are temporarily
out-of-date, which is bad).
On 2016-06-30 14:18:16 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Doesn't aptitude have a --keep-all flag to cover situations like this?
No. Adding "removals" to Aptitude::ProblemResolver::SolutionCost
in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10aptitude helps, but doesn't prevent all
removals. :(
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