Bug#549089: apt: Please add support for temporary packages
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.24
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice to having a function to mark a package (and all it's
automatically installed dependencies) as "temporary" when installing
it. So one can safely test a software and then remove it without leaving
a lot of unnecessary junk in the system.
If someday one has to get some free space, he can look to temporary installed
packaged and then decide to individually confirm or remove them.
Just my 2c
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29.1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.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 2.9-26 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-4 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-4 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 | wajig <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dpkg-dev 1.15.4 Debian package development tools
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
ii python-apt 0.7.13.3 Python interface to libapt-pkg
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