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Bug#547627: /usr/bin/apt-get: apt-get does clearly the wrong thing



On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 09:15:54AM +0200, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.7.23.1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/bin/apt-get
> 
> 
> Its some kind of design bug. After doing:
> 
> apt-get install gnome
> apt-get install wicd
> 
> my whole gnome desktop is marked for autoremove. this is because
> gnome is removed, because gnome-network-manager conflicts with wicd.
> 
> The correct thing would be, not to mark packages for autoremove if this condition 
> is the result of a conflict.
No. The packages are marked as automatically installed once
they are installed. If you now remove all packages depending
on them, it is clear that they may be removed.

To solve the problem, use something like
	aptitude unmarkauto ~i~R^gnome$
before executing apt-get install wicd. This will mark all
packages on which gnome depends as manually installed.




-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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