Bug#727799: gnome-core depends are marked manual
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 6:28 PM, David Kalnischkies
<david@kalnischkies.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 06:18:29PM +0100, Jascha Geerds wrote:
>> I've just created a new debian sid installation inside a chroot using
>> debootstrap. If I install "gnome-core" in it, there are a dozen of
>> gnome-core packages which are marked as manually installed even though I
>> only installed a single package. I don't think that this is the right
>> behavior.
>
> I already mention in this bugreport why this is the correct behavior.
> (If it is the right behavior is kinda a personal preference and as such
> we default to false-negative instead of false-positive in regards to
> "no longer needed packages" as 'wasted diskspace' is not as critical as
> 'no longer usable system')
>
> In short: The package gnome-core is in section "metapackages" and this
> section is set in APT::Never-MarkAuto-Sections, so the packages gnome-core
> depends on are marked as manually installed.
>
Just a quick idea for the future: Maybe it makes sense to track which
meta package causes a package to be installed. Then we can later, when
the meta package is removed (that is only *once*) print a message
stating:
The following packages were installed by this meta-package and
might not be required any longer
possibly asking the user whether he wants to mark them for auto-removal.
--
Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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