On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 01:28:12AM -0500, Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > [Daniel Burrows] > > you'd have to do something like "aptitude keep ~Rdepends:^gnome$". > > Too arcane. (: > > I've occasionally wanted a simple command in aptitude for "remove the > auto flag from all the depends of this package" - not only for > metapackages but also for dummy upgrade packages. Another way to look > at it is a combined command for "remove this package but arrange not to > remove anything it pulled in". > > This seems a bit better to me than unconditionally keeping dependencies > of removed metapackages, as Bug #328441 suggests.
Just FYI, a shortcut in the visual interface would be to jump into the depends screen and hit 'm' on the Depends tree (maybe also on Recommends). Daniel
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