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

[Michael Vogt <mvo@ubuntu.com>]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 03:18:15PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.3
> Severity: wishlist

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> 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.

apt-get install $package (for a already installed package) should set
it to manually installed and it will disappear from the autoremove
list. 
 
Cheers,
 Michael