Re: cleanly getting rid of manually installed transitional packages due to rename
On 2020-04-22 08:33:23 +0200, deloptes wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > You did not understand. Doing this removes both the transitional
> > package *and* the new (renamed) package... unless one marks the new
> > package as manually installed (which is the thing that I wanted to
> > be done automatically).
>
> If there is a package depending on another one. the dependency will not be
> removed, so if a replacement is to be installed that depends on the package
> in question this package will not be removed.
Could you please read what I've said earlier in the original post?
> > No. The package could be so important that if it were uninstalled
> > first, one could lose the network connection, which would be terribly
> > bad when one cannot have a physical access to the machine before
> > several days or weeks. Even if things still seem to be fine after the
> > uninstall, things could break in the future, and it could be difficult
> > to trace back to the original cause.
>
> This is true, but it I do not remember when the last time I had something
> like this. You should be reading what it says before pressing "y" on the
> command line.
Could you please read what I've said earlier in the original post?
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