2014-03-23 20:32 GMT+01:00 Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>:
Right, and previously people complained because removing the task removed
their complete desktop. We cannot have both and decided to switch to the
safe site and mark dependencies of metapackages as manually installed.
ok - this is not, what I did (or would!) expect, but this is not the place to discuss this.
Nevertheless, is there something strange happening - or am I again expecting some other behavior?!
* do above (install minimal debian, lxde-task)
* remove some other package, which caused some depended/suggested packages to be installed
* (1) "apt-get -s autoremove" will show you the auto-installed packages to be removed.
* (2) "apt-get -s autoremove" will show you some more packages to be removed
* run aptitude which will try to re-install "network-manager-gnome"
so far, everything is expected. But:
If I tell aptitude to keep "network-manager-gnome" purged (_) and proceed. I would expect aptitude to remove all packages, which "apt-get -s autoremove"(2) showed, but instead aptitude will only remove the packages which were installed by the "autoremove"(1).
But the real problem: the packages which were automatically installed by "network-manager-gnome" loose their auto-flag and are no longer displayed by "apt-get autoremove"/aptitude.