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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.9-7
Severity: wishlist
I configured aptitude not to add automatically suggested packages;
however, from time to time I follow one suggestion and add the package.
What I would like is the possibility to mark this package as "suggested
automatic" - that is, the package should be removed if it is not
suggested anymore by an installed package.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1-686
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.1 0.6.42.1 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-3 GCC support library
ii libsigc++-1.2-5c2 1.2.5-5 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Benjamin Piwowarski <[email protected]> wrote:
> I configured aptitude not to add automatically suggested packages;
> however, from time to time I follow one suggestion and add the
> package. What I would like is the possibility to mark this package as
> "suggested automatic" - that is, the package should be removed if it
> is not suggested anymore by an installed package.
This is quite possible, as already noted. I further note that it has
been configurable for both suggests and recommends for some time. See
APT::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant.
Closing.
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not really interested in keeping everything that is suggested.
> What I am interested in is keeping packages that I selected *because*
> they were suggested, as long as the suggestion is in force. The
> suggested "suggested automatic" state would help here.
In effect, you wish to make selected relationships stronger, that is,
upgrade a particular suggests to recommends or depends. This is tracked
at [1].
Note that a similar effect can be acheived using a local metapackage
that depends on both the main package and the important suggested
package. Then you install just this metapackage, and it takes care to
upgrade the dependency for you. [2]
[1] <http://bugs.debian.org/341400>
[2]
<http://juliank.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/managing-system-package-selections-using-custom-meta-packages/>
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