Bug#537450: apt: Don't advertize autoremove on every invocation

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 01:49:24PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.21
> Severity: wishlist

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> I don't think it's necessary to advertize autoremove on every invocation.

There is a option that can be used to hide it:

APT::Get::HideAutoRemove "false";

I think its pretty useful to show it by default, otherwise the
autoremove feature is hard to discover. And unless there are bugs, it
really does show stuff that is no longer needed.

Cheers,
 Michael
 
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> -- apt-config dump --
> 
> APT "";
> APT::Architecture "amd64";
> APT::Build-Essential "";
> APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
> APT::Install-Recommends "1";
> APT::Install-Suggests "0";
> APT::Acquire "";
> APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
> APT::Authentication "";
> APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
> APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
> Dir "/";
> Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
> Dir::State::lists "lists/";
> Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
> Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
> Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
> Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
> Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
> Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
> Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
> Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
> Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
> Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
> Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
> Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
> Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
> Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
> Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
> Dir::Bin "";
> Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
> Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
> Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
> Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
> DPkg "";
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
> DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
> 
> -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
> 
> 
> -- /etc/apt/sources.list --
> 
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
> 
> deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ experimental main
> 
> deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> 
> Versions of packages apt depends on:
> ii  debian-archive-keyring        2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
> ii  libc6                         2.9-20     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libgcc1                       1:4.4.0-11 GCC support library
> ii  libstdc++6                    4.4.0-11   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> 
> apt recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages apt suggests:
> pn  apt-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
> pn  aptitude | synaptic | gnome-a <none>     (no description available)
> ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-3    high-quality block-sorting file co
> ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.3.1   Debian package development tools
> ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in
> pn  python-apt                    <none>     (no description available)
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> 
> 
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