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Bug#432092: apt: No official way to tell APT to keep packages on autoremove



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Am 2007-07-07 15:18:15, schrieb Mathias Brodala:
> 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.
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> I???m curious how Synaptic handles this since it offers a simple checkbox for
> this without needing to reinstall the packages in question.

Since "apt-get" does not AUTOREMOVE, but aptitude, you can, if you
deinstall a Package, go into the list of autoremoved Packages and
deselect it.  After the deselection it is not more marked as autoremove.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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