Bug#148002: apt-get remove should not install packages
On Fri, 24 May 2002, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> I encountered that problem today: I have licq and licq-plugin-qt2 installed.
> I want to remove licq. If I apt-get remove licq, apt wants to install
> licq-ssl because it's the only way to keep licq-plugin-qt2.
> "apt-get remove" should remove the packages which can't stay after the
> removal of the packages which are asked to be removed. It shouldn't try
> to keep them by installing new packages. I understand that it may want to
> try an upgrade of the package to see if it can keep it but no more.
I disagree, if you don't like what it is going to do you can always
specfiy a more exact directions on the command line. To excessively remove
things would be against the basic behaviour of install/remove commands.
Jason
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