Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename
On 2020-04-21 17:39:55 +0200, nito@dismail.de wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 17:07:52 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > Sometimes packages get renamed. [...]
> >
> > [...] if one
> > wants to remove it, then apt or aptitude will also want to remove
> > the new package because this new package has not been installed
> > manually and its only reverse dependency (the transitional package)
> > has just been removed by this operation. [...]
> >
> > Is there a way to avoid this behavior automatically, i.e. by
> > forwarding the "manually installed" state automatically to the
> > new package?
>
> You can use apt-mark to mark the new package as manually installed.
But I said *automatically*. I want to avoid tracking renames, as
it is easy to forget something, and some important package could
be removed in case of mistake (if I forget to mark the package
as manually installed).
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