Bug#431737: Bug?
Hello,
I do not agree at all with you having downgraded the bug, but I won't upgrade it back. If some of the maintainers wants to upgrade it, I let them assume this responsibility...
It is hilarious: the bug opened for almost two months, lot of people reading it, very deep discussions about whether it is or not a bug, and now you come, and
*without reading the discussion*, you downgrade it...
If removing essential packages in gnome, and the ONLY display manager that is installed (gdm) is not a bug, I'll eat my hat.
*Imagine the effect on a not-so-experienced user*.
The auto-remove function is for removing packages that are *already not required*. If gdm is "already not required", I'll eat my hat.
The option of auto-removing was included to make life a bit easier. Otherwise, we can use "Linux from scratch" instead of Debian. If you do not want the auto-remove option, don't include it. But,
*if you decide to include this feature, it must not have this behaviour*.
Two hypotheses about this behaviour are (but I am not sure at all):
a) That apt regards pakages that were installed at Debian's installation time as automatically installed.
b) That apt regards pakages that were installed before the new version of apt (the one with the auto-remove feature) as automatically installed.
David
On 29/08/2007,
Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com> wrote:
How is autoremoving a lot a bug?
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