Bug#549089: apt: Please add support for temporary packages
On 23 November 2016 at 14:37, Tianon Gravi <tianon@debian.org> wrote:
> I realized that a clean way to handle this would be some way to just
> tell "apt-get install" to _not_ mark the packages as manually
> installed -- if they're already marked, leave their markings alone,
> otherwise mark them as auto (akin to Gentoo's "emerge --oneshot" or
> what's possible with Alpine's "apk --virtual"). This way, new
> packages could be installed willy nilly, and easily removed with
> "apt-get autoremove".
>
> I can mimic this behavior currently by doing some dancing with
> "apt-mark" before and after install, but it'd be really awesome if APT
> itself had either a flag or a "-o" option for adjusting the package
> marking behavior.
>
> If it seems like this is really a separate wishlist item (and not as
> overlapping as I thought), I'm also happy to file a new wishlist issue
> instead. :)
Looks like this is already essentially what's suggested over in
#745769, but if I'm right in my hunch that the use cases are
reasonably overlapping, the two could probably be combined (or marked
fixed by the same feature addition). :)
♥,
- Tianon
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