Bug#432092: apt: No official way to tell APT to keep packages on autoremove
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.3
Severity: wishlist
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AFAIS does APT provide no official way to keep packages when they have
been recognized as no longer needed and autoremovable. You can always do
an "apt-get install --reinstall $package" but I think something like
"apt-get keep $package" would be more intuitive.
I’m curious how Synaptic handles this since it offers a simple checkbox for
this without needing to reinstall the packages in question.
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-1-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.02.19-0.1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.5-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2-20070627-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.2-20070627-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
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